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hatster (Registered User) |
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Mon, 6/16/2003 at 21:56 EDT |
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Well, to be dull... <Reverend> [6/16/2003 @ 17:44] (1/2)
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Well, to be duller however sublime |
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Try this from Longinus on the sublime:
When, however, as though suddenly inspired by heaven and as it were
frenzied by the God of Prophecy, he utters his famous oath by the champions of
Greece ('assuredly ye did no wrong; I swear it by those who at Marathon stood
in the forefront of the danger,'(On the Crown 208, at Perseus) ), in the public
view by this one Figure of Adjuration, which I here term Apostrophe, he
deifies his ancestors. He brings home the thought that we ought to swear by
those who have thus nobly died as we swear by Gods, and he fills the mind of
the judges with the high spirit of those who there bore the brunt of the
danger, and he has transformed the natural course of the argument into
transcendent sublimity and passion and that secure belief which rests upon
strange and prodigious oaths. He instils into the minds of his hearers the
conviction--which acts as a medicine and an antidote--that they should,
uplifted by these eulogies, feel no less proud of the fight against Philip than
of the triumph at Marathon and Salamis. By all these means he carries his
hearers clean away with him through the employment of a single figure.
or, more briefly, on Apostrophe
a-pos'-tro-phe from apo “away from” and strephein “to turn”
prosphonesis
aversio
the turne tale
Turning one's speech from one audience to another. Most often, apostrophe
occurs when one addresses oneself to an abstraction, to an inanimate object, or
to the absent.
(So yes, Vocative)
Since this figure often involves emotion, it can overlap with
exclamatio.
Examples
Antony addresses Caesar's corpse immediately following the assasination
in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
—Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 3.1.254-257
Related Figures
* Figures of Pathos
* personification
*
anacoenosis
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...each of us is an allegory, embodying in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time and place, universal truth and everlasting life. (Letters, 163)
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