Not Your Tired Trope
from Celebrate Creativity Hosted by George Bartley
Send us Fan Mail This episode deals with tropes as rhetorical devices. George gives an absolutely groan inducing way to remember antomasia. The ghosts of Mr. Poe and Mr. Shakespeare give examples of antonomasia, metaphor, simile, synecdoche, onomatapeia from their works. (Some of the extended metaphors in this episode include Shakespeare’s All the World’s a Stage and Poe’s The Conqueror Worm. 00:01 Introduction 00:24 Tired, stereotypical tropes 04:54 Antonomasia 06:38 Metaphor 07:20 All the World’s a Stage as metaphor 09:44 The Conqueror Worm as metaphor 11:53 Metaphors and similes 14:29 Synecdoche 16:05 Metonomy 17:02 Paranomasia 18:58 Onomatapoeia 19:54 The Bells as onomatapoeia 24:00 Two special sources 26:35 Future episode 27:19 Sources What is a trope as a rhetorical device? What is antomasia? Name a theatre metaphor from the works of Shakespeare. Name a theatre metaphor from the works of Poe. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Give an example of synecdoche by Shakespeare and Poe. What is paraomasia? How is The Bells an example of onomatapoia? Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
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Send us Fan Mail This episode deals with tropes as rhetorical devices. George gives an absolutely groan inducing way to remember antomasia. The ghosts of Mr. Poe and Mr. Shakespeare give examples of antonomasia, metaphor, simile, synecdoche, onomatapeia from their works. (Some of the extended metaphors in this episode include Shakespeare’s All the World’s a Stage and Poe’s The Conqueror Worm. 00:01 Introduction00:24 Tired, stereotypical tropes04:54 Antonomasia06:38 Metapho...
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