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Lost in Delight
This week in rhetoric we discussed began to read Nick Flynn’s The Ticking is the Bomb. We also read and discussed the second element of rhetoric from Leith’s Words Like Loaded Pistols, on style. Our following discussions were an introduction to keywords regarding rhetorical figures of amplification, contrast and parallelism, disruption, and reduction. During these discussions we not…
The Deception of Inartistic Logic
This week in Rhetoric we read chapters three and four of The Central Park Five, discussed vocabulary from Words Like Loaded Pistols, and read chapters three and four of Introduction to Documentary. Chapters three and four of The Central Park Five expanded on the details of the criminal case, including an instructor profile of the victim, a highlighting of racial…
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