rhetoric
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The Rumpus Interview with Bronwen Dickey
Bronwen Dickey discusses Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon, her examination of one of the most feared dog breeds, how the media changes perceptions, and what Eliza Doolittle might have to say about this.
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A Rhetorical Tragedy
We enjoy tragedy because through it, we are able to purge those aspects of ourselves with which we are most uncomfortable. Our onstage avatar embodies all those thoughts and feelings, desires and fears, ambitions and delusions with which we are…
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Just Wing It
Robert Minto examines selections from Homer’s Iliad to discover why some language and rhetoric misses its mark while other characters’ “winging words” achieve their purpose.
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All Sound and Fury
We are good at being morally outraged on the Internet, but what does it even mean? JSTOR Daily has a brief history of our outrage.
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The Most Common Rhetorical Device You’ve Never Heard Of
Like its cousin apophasis, litotes is one of the stealth bombers of the rhetorical world – its anonymous ubiquity defies reason and gives it the power to strike at any time, without warning. The Guardian explores litotes, a rhetorical device…