COM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Saturday Evening Post, Alliteration, Hyperbole
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We"re going to go through the like crap through a goose! : metaphor. That stuff you hear about america not wanting to fight is a lot of horse shit : 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. The use of constant same sounds in a row. Put sentences or phrases after another that have the same or similar structure. When you put two opposing ideas next to each other to bring out a point. 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! . One small step for man, one big step for mankind : repetition. Repeating a phrase several times for effect. Yes we can , i have a dream : inversion. Changing the normal order of words to draw attention.
