Rhetorical Eyes!
They’re everywhere! Everywhere you look, if you have the right training, you can find “hidden” rhetorical strategies with your “rhetorical eyes.”
Allusion to the Bible by Casting Crowns, The Voice of Truth
“The kind of strength it takes to stand before a giant
With just a Sling and a stone
Surrounded by the sound of a thousand warriors
Shaking in their armor
Wishing they’d have had the strength to stand”
Polysyndeton by Reba McEntire, So, So Long
“So long, so good, so fine, so real, so right,
so long, so fine, so long…”
Anaphora by Julius Caesar
“Veni, Vidi, Vici”
“We came, We saw, We conquered”
Personification by Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth…”
Not everyone understands it, not everyone sees it, but isn’t it funny how everywhere you look you see these funny little things. I bet the next time you look at a poem or listen to a song you will notice these rhetorical strategies with your “rhetorical eyes.”
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