Figures of Speech.   Up until now, we’ve been covering figures of thought, also called, tropes.  Now we are going to begin covering figures of speech,

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Figures of Speech

  Up until now, we’ve been covering figures of thought, also called, tropes.  Now we are going to begin covering figures of speech, also called, schemes.  Figures of speech depend upon a change in the standard order or usual syntax of words to create special effects.  Figures of speech include apostrophe, rhetorical question, anaphora, antithesis, and chiasmus. New Stuff

  An apostrophe is an address to a dead or absent person or to an inanimate object or abstract concept.  The aim is not, of course, to evoke a response—a logical impossibility—but to elevate the style or to give emotional intensity to the address. Apostrophe

  Wordsworth’s sonnet, “London, 1802,” begins with an apostrophe to the narrator’s long-dead predecessor, the 17 th century poet John Milton:  “Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour:/England hath need of thee.” Example

  In Romeo and Juliet, the young heroine, awaiting the consummation of her marriage with Romeo, apostrophizes a personification of night to guide her through the thrilling and intimidating experience:  “Come, civil night,/Thou sober-suited matron all in black,/And learn me how to lose a winning match,/Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods.” Example

  In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare makes fun of the usual serious use of apostrophe in his absurd play-within-the-play, “Pyramus and Thisbe.”  The dim-witted Athenian workmen who perform it have a stolidly literal-minded conception of the state set, and enlist members of their company to represent the Wall that separates the longing lovers and the Moon that shines on their encounter. Bottom, playing Pyramis pleads:  “Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,/Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.”  In contrast to the usual unresponsiveness from an inanimate entity that is apostrophized, the Wall complies by “holding up his fingers.” Example

  A special form of apostrophe is the invocation.  The poet addresses an appeal to a muse or a god to inspire the creative endeavor.  Homer’s Odyssey:  “Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story/of that man skilled in all ways of contending.” Invocation

  A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in which a question is posed not to solicit a reply but to emphasize a foregone or clearly implied conclusion.  The goal is to create a stronger effect than might be achieved by a direct assertion.  An everyday example is: “Can you imagine that?”  The point is to stress that a surprising or shocking thing has in fact happened.  Another example could be, “Are you crazy?” Rhetorical Question

  In Wilfred Owen’s “Futility,” the narrator, contemplating the body of a young soldier who has been killed in the First World War, asks the heart- wrenching rhetorical question:  “Was it for this the clay grew tall?” Example

  In William Blake’s “Holy Thursday (II)” is a blistering denouncement of the suffering imposed on poor children in the charity schools of 18 th century England.  The narrator expresses his outrage in a series of rhetorical questions:  Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of joy? And so many children poor? Example

  Anaphora (comes from the Greek word “repetition”) is the intentional repetition of words and phrases at the beginning of successive lines, stanzas, sentences, or paragraphs.  It is used frequently in both poetry and prose to create emphasis. Anaphora

  “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy,/Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5.7-8).  In Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” a child asks the question, “What is the grass?” The speaker responds:  “I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven./Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord.” Examples

  In “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Tennyson uses anaphora to suggest the speed and tension of a fatal battle:  “Cannon to right of them,/Cannon to left of them,/Cannon in front of them/Volleyed and thundered.” More

  Antithesis (from the Greek word for “opposition”) is a figure of speech in which words or phrases that are parallel in order and syntax express opposite or contrasting meanings. Antithesis

  The long opening sentence of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities provides a famous series of antitheses:  “It was the best of times, it was the worst or times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness…” Example

  Alexander Pope also used antithesis quite often.  In his mock epic, “The Rape of the Lock,” the narrator claims as his antithetical subject “What mighty contests rise from trivial things.”  He also says, “Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.” More

  William Blake makes a quite different use of the figure of speech in the opening stanza of his moralistic fable, “A Poison Tree”:  I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. More

  Chiasmus (from the Greek word for “criss-cross,”) is a figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the words. Chiasmus

  Robert Frost’s “The Gift Outright,” begins with the chiastic line:  “The land was ours before we were the land’s.”  In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the following chiasmus occurs:  “The Sun came up upon the left,/Out of the sea came he!”  In Lord Byron’s Don Juan, he states,  “Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.” Examples