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#141659 04/03/05 11:05 PM
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'The Wall Street Crash did not cause the Great Depression; the war did. Roosevelt's New Deal did not remedy the Great Depression; the war did.' --Robert Sobel, unknown source (either 'Panic on Wall Street' or 'The Great Bull Market').

Which rhetorical devices are at work in this sentence? I thought epistrophe but the word as defined on Onelook didn't capture the similarity of structure in the two non-identical clauses. Any ideas?


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Welcome, orchard!
If you can find Willard Espy's "The Garden of Eloquence", that will probably have the right word in it. I have a copy, but putting my hand on it will take me a couple of days.



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You might find it here, orchard:
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm


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> similarity of structure in the two non-identical clauses.
Parallelism?


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If you can't find The Garden of Eloquence under the bed (with the dustballs, thank you very much), you can at http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Primary Texts/Peacham.htm. The New York Public Library catalogs one that contains examples from Henry Peacham's original of 1577. I don't know but that this one is "the original." Or isn't.

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I'll go with Avy in voting for parallelism for the overall structure, with the addeed bonus of epistrophe in the repetition of the phrase 'the war did.'


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I'll go with Faldage and Avy, except that I wonder why an epistrophe isn't just a species of parallelism (?).


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"The subtle distinction between two terms [of rhetoric]
is completely irrelevant."
- anon. college classics department chairman


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The subtle distinction between two terms [of rhetoric] is completely irrelevant.

The distinction might be irrelevant but methinks the *reason(ing) for using (having) two terms can't be.

Although an implied thrift comes with eloquence, does not specificity arrive as well?


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<<The subtle distinction...>>

Thus, my question, why not just say 'epistrophe' and leave it at that.


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