This work is epitomized by polyptoton, the grammatical morphing of the word, as Aristotle explains repeatedly in the Topics. "It is sometimes the goal of an argument to take a concept accepted by an audience in one role or category of a sentence action and transfer it to others, an agent becoming an action or an action becoming an attribute and so on.
(Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase. The first please is please the interjection, as in 'Please mind the gap.' The second please is a verb meaning to give pleasure, as in 'This pleases me.' Same word: two different parts of speech." "'Please Please Me' is a classic case of polyptoton. ( The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms, 3rd ed., ed. Schaar says that Shakespeare uses polyptoton 'almost to excess,' 'using derivatives of more than a hundred stems' in the sonnets." "Shakespeare takes great interest in this device it increases patterning without wearying the ear, and it takes advantage of the differing functions, energies, and positionings that different word classes are permitted in speech. (Norman Mailer, Cannibals and Christians, 1966) " Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.".(William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 1950) "His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars.".So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. "Behold, I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.(Slogan of the United States Travel Service in the 1960s) " Friendly Americans win American friends."."A good ad should be like a good sermon: it must not only comfort the afflicted it also must afflict the comfortable."." Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through." Morality is moral only when it is voluntary."."Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console Īnd it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.".(Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, 1857) "he signora at every grimace and at every bow smiled a little smile and bowed a little bow.".(Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook.
#POLYPTOTON IN THE AENEID FITZGERALD FULL#
"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."."By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself.".Bronson Alcott, "Conversations." Table-Talk, 1877) "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.".
" Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return."."he now mourned someone who even before his death had made her a mourner.".
#POLYPTOTON IN THE AENEID FITZGERALD MOVIE#
(Brad Pitt in the movie Fight Club, 1999)