ENG205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Emma Woodhouse, Acne Vulgaris
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Emma woodhouse - style formal style complicated syntax ones. Begins with happy images and progresses into more sorrowful. We infer that the character is arrogant. A restrained voice, civilized tone, lightly ironic repetition of expletives frenetic pace. Uses the trope of personification, which is strange because it de- animates the people and focuses on the city as the living being. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance theme = the relationship between philosophical thought and everyday life merely giving us a guided tour of his ideas integration of exposition and narrative. His critiques are not meant to be authoritative or complete, he is. He relates abstract thought to everyday activity. Romantic tends to aestheticize the world, classical tends to. Aim of the book: to enlighten the audience mechanize the world. Rhetoric is the language of power in a certain society.