Rhythm Rhetorical Repetition Anaphora and Epistrophe

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another thing we want to build in is the sense of rhythm and this will give us chance to review bunch of things from our course so we'll have three of them one is rhetorical repetition the other is parallel structure and the third which is fan favorite the rule 3 we'll start with rhetorical repetition and speech that think every middle school or high school or learns about which is Martin Luther King's have dream speech in 1963 where he intentionally repeats have dream have dream have dream and so miss Christensen Dube any idea what that thing is called there's specific word for repeating something intentionally at the beginning of sentence for rhetorical effect you have any idea what it's called yeah few people do and that's okay it's got terrible name it's called anaphora no one really ever remembers that so we just talked about it in terms of rhetorical repetition that seems to be at least with my students particularly the undergrads they remember that lot more than anaphora and so we have some examples of this so the Home Depot their slogan is this miss Christensen we're saving we're doing right that's an effort that's rhetorical repetition and we're going to use marketers and other people who are good at communicating ideas so that we can see okay it's not an accident that they're using these structures maybe we can borrow so that's rhetorical repetition at the beginning and Afra rhetorical repetition at the end is called epistrophe again not very easy name to remember so just think rhetorical repetition could do it at the beginning could do it at the end rhetorical repetition at the end we have an example from the Homeland Security so mr. Patel you want to read their slogan if you see something say something yeah see you could only guess before we get to it and that's the power of really compelling structure that you get the audience to start to fill in the information without even having to tell them