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The rhetorical device and/or Greek figure used is periphrasis, where you intentionally wordy, or not.
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The rhetorical device and/or Greek figure used is palilogia, for repeating in several different clauses. This applies to both mutually exclusive usages of every and practice.
Context of quotes on TodayShow.com,
Sheen insisted that the drug- and alcohol-fueled behavior he described as “epic” never interfered with his work on “Men,” and that despite all the headlines, all his bosses saw when he showed up on the set was “a guy hitting every mark, nailing every line, every joke, with a full house screaming.” He claimed he never missed a day’s shooting: “Not a day that cost anybody any money,” he said. “I missed practice. We’re talking about practice … practice is for amateurs, you know?”
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The rhetorical device and/or Greek figure used is anthimeria, where you take a word in one part of speech, like a noun (in this case, a proper noun) and make it a different part of speech, like a regular noun for something else; and metonymy, where the name of the chemical reactions of the drug is swapped out, entirely, with a thing called ”Charlie Sheen,” to stand in for it.
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The rhetorical devices and/or Greek figures used are the figure of repetition epizeuxis for stupid stupid (battologia for the vain repetition); alliteration (Greek figure homoeoprophoron) of pu**y punk; cacemphaton for the foul language;
Side note: name-calling is not an ad hominem attack.
See and read about this at TMZ.com (click picture for link).
The back story:
“TMZ has learned “Two and a Half Men” will immediately stop production for the rest of the season … because of Charlie’s escapades in the last few days … most recently what he said to TMZ.”
Check out FallacyFiles.org for more on argumentum ad hominem.
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The rhetorical device, or Greek figure, is syncrisis, because of the pattern of the close comparison through similarity with something else, but isn’t quite an alloiosis because it isn’t a this-isn’t-that pattern.
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The Greek figure and/or rhetorical device is antimetabole, as the power-love-love-power creates an obvious ABBA pattern using the exact same words (which distinguishes it from a chiasmus.)
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The persuasive element is reformed cliché-esque. The actual title of the big picture drama is The King’s Speech, but the movie is more about Geoffrey’s character who is a speech therapist specializing in “speech defects.” Because the title isn’t really a cliché, it’s not really a reformed cliché, thus the “-esque. (which is French for “-ish!” :) )”
Thanks to Today.MSNBC.MSN.com for posting their easy-to-use clip & share video and transcript of the interview.
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NPR.org jumped on the the-kings-speech-therapist-why-didnt-they-make-that-movie-instead bandwagon, also.
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The rhetorical device, or Greek figure of speech, is autophasia. Autophasia is extremely similar to a catch 22, where either way, you’re in the money and they are S.O.L.
Thanks to TVTropes.org for bringing this to my attention.
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