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A poetic element that draws pictures for listeners and makes a rhetorical reality visible and memorable.
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imagery
A poetic element that draws pictures for listeners and makes a rhetorical reality visible and memorable.
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Odysseus builds persuasive force by moving Achilles through vivid contrasts and time: feast versus desert, present Hector, past Peleus, and future victory, riches, marriage, and Greek glory.
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Poetry explains why speech can be powerful: poetic elements, especially imagery, make speech memorable and reality-shaping.
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Jiang says Euripides is now regarded by scholars as the most talented, imaginative, and shocking of the three tragedians, especially in poetry, metaphor, and imagery.
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"...guys. Okay? Poetry. And the elements of poetry, of course, are imagery. And this is what Odysseus does well. This is what he specializes..."
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"Drawing pictures for you to see. Okay? Metaphors. Connections. Okay? Metaphors is what we call connections. And connections are things. They're things that help..."
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"...back. Okay? So it's a powerful image. And then he uses imagery to take Achilles to the present. Where Hector is this giant, this..."
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"Before you came to the war, you promised him that you would win glory for him. You promised that you would win glory for..."
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"...most talented, meaning his use of poetry, his use of metaphors, imagery, it was the most imaginative, OK? We also agree that he is..."
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"Odysseus is trying to create a reality and he's using imagery, he's using diction. No, no, he doesn't understand anything. He's just blah, blah,..."
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"Also, if you study this poetry very closely, you study the imagery, what he's describing almost is a baby leaving the womb, right? Because..."
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"...to understand is how poets transform civilization is they innovate in imagery, grammar, and vocabulary, OK? And when they do that, poets expand a..."
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"...And so, with an oral culture you have a stronger memory, imagery, vibrancy and flexibility. Look guys, I hate to say this but back..."
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"...people who write novels, they use beautiful language, beautiful description, great imagery, but there's really not great truths, deep truths, grand truths in the..."
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"...don't allow, they don't allow for depictions of their God in imagery, okay? This is another great artwork from the Spanish Golden Age. As..."
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"...become alive. They're more colored. They're more detailed. They're much more imagery. Okay? And third is these these these are bouncing off the walls..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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