It is ironic for him to have such an extended metaphor, going on and on about how, even though we believe ourselves to be above nature and other flawed creatures, we are, indeed, just as flawed and repetitious as they are. Thoreau’s continuous use of rhetoric devices such as polysyndeton (like ants;…into men;…with cranes;…error, and…clout, and…superfluous and evitable..), tautology (still live meanly, like ants…like pilgrims we fight…error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue […] has wretchedness) and pleonasm (error upon error, clout upon clout…) within the extended metaphor slows the pace and emphasizes the round-about feeling about being caught in the vicious circle of today’s society.
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It is ironic for him to have such an extended metaphor, going on and on about how, even though we believe ourselves to be above nature and other flawed creatures, we are, indeed, just as flawed and repetitious as they are. Thoreau’s continuous use of rhetoric devices such as polysyndeton (like ants;…into men;…with cranes;…error, and…clout, and…superfluous and evitable..), tautology (still live meanly, like ants…like pilgrims we fight…error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue […] has wretchedness) and pleonasm (error upon error, clout upon clout…) within the extended metaphor slows the pace and emphasizes the round-about feeling about being caught in the vicious circle of today’s society.
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who's in brown 2020
I have Madsen 2020.
lol, people doing this in collage when im a high school junior in an AP class.
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Same here
Bruh same im in 10th grade
yo these questions saved me for this assignment. Thanks for being clutch
same lol
same- i just didn't feel like doing it on my own
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