COM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Alliteration, Spoonerism, Malapropism
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No matter how erudite, if style is ineffective, it"s bad. No matter how plain, if style is effective, it"s good. Simile: we"re going to go through them like crap through a goose . Metaphor: that stuff you hear about america is not wanting to fight is a lot of horse dung . Hyperbole: the bilious bastards who wrote that stuff for the saturday evening post don"t know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating . Alliteration: bilious bastards , hoot in hell , shoveled shit . Parallelism (recurrent syntaxical similiarity: wade into them. Antithesis: no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. Inversion: ask not what your country can do for you . Inversion + antithesis + parallelism: my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
