Post by Mr. Wells on Mar 5, 2008 13:52:44 GMT -5
or Enduringly Euphonious Examples.
With a partner or alone, you are to create a sample piece of writing of at least 500 words that employs cacophony, euphony, or both. The passage should express your point of view and attitude about a particular subject, and this point of view should be buttressed by your use of cacophony and euphony.
Another word about euphony. By now, many of you have noticed the roles alliteration, assonance, and consonance play in cacophony and euphony. I hope that you begin to notice the ways that all the rhetorical strategies related to diction work together. Writers employ loads of rhetorical strategies at any given time, often simultaneously, and it is nearly impossible for any who study language and rhetoric to find or analyze every rhetorical strategy in any given piece. Your job is to find the rhetorical strategies that play the biggest role in anything you read and identify the effect. If you approach this task indefatigably, you will become better not only at analyzing pieces of writing, but also writing pieces yourself.
With a partner or alone, you are to create a sample piece of writing of at least 500 words that employs cacophony, euphony, or both. The passage should express your point of view and attitude about a particular subject, and this point of view should be buttressed by your use of cacophony and euphony.
Another word about euphony. By now, many of you have noticed the roles alliteration, assonance, and consonance play in cacophony and euphony. I hope that you begin to notice the ways that all the rhetorical strategies related to diction work together. Writers employ loads of rhetorical strategies at any given time, often simultaneously, and it is nearly impossible for any who study language and rhetoric to find or analyze every rhetorical strategy in any given piece. Your job is to find the rhetorical strategies that play the biggest role in anything you read and identify the effect. If you approach this task indefatigably, you will become better not only at analyzing pieces of writing, but also writing pieces yourself.