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Description:
Lines 54–56 ("The course…outside science") contain a use of
Transcript
- 00:05
All right A p laying People got another one for
- 00:07
your question lines fifty four through fifty six The course
- 00:10
And we'll get that contain a use of what Line
- 00:17
fifty for three fifty six Let's go back in there
- 00:19
and find them right there in the course of nature
Full Transcript
- 00:22
as it is as it has been and as it
- 00:24
will be the object of scientific inquiry Whatever lies beyond
- 00:27
above or below this is outside science Well let's think
- 00:29
about this Parallel construction makes for good syntactic organization because
- 00:33
it creates balance improves flow and aids digestion Yeah or
- 00:37
maybe it's comprehension We're not sure Parallelism is also effective
- 00:41
because people seem to like various forms of repetition The
- 00:44
phrase as it is as it has been and as
- 00:46
it will be is internally parallel repeating ads that while
- 00:50
it invokes the past present and future What's more the
- 00:53
triple word combination beyond above and below is parallel to
- 00:56
the triple combination is has been and will be yet
- 00:59
not content with hitting two triples The author's swings for
- 01:02
the fences by making the two parts of the sentence
- 01:05
parallel to each other with an antithesis is in a
- 01:08
right there that which concerned science and be all in
- 01:12
all well it's a fine performance at that The runners
- 01:14
up paradox eh is a contradiction Like everything i say
- 01:19
is a lie My autonomy b is a figure of
- 01:21
speech that replaces the name of a person object or
- 01:23
idea with something associated with it Like all hands on
- 01:26
deck or the site gets lots of clicks Hyperbole c
- 01:30
is a rhetorical exaggeration or verbal overkill in rhetoric A
- 01:34
tautology e is another term for redundancy or saying the
- 01:38
same thing in different ways Again again again as in
- 01:41
you know free gift or deja vu all over again
- 01:44
Or repeating oneself unnecessarily Yeah we did that We do
- 01:47
that a lot All right Anyway the answer here is 00:01:49.864 --> [endTime] the parallelism
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