Shakespeare's Rhetoric

This will be the final post of 2016 (or it was when I began writing it), so the focus once more will be the Bard, as a sign of respect to his four centuries of posthumous domination in English literature. After a Google search and some browsing, I came across a page full of useful information: http://www.bardweb.net/grammar/02rhetoric.html. This link lists rhetorical devices that Shakespeare used to enliven his writing. For example, the device I explored in my previous post is called "anthimeria." More useful than the names are the descriptions, which I have included below. After reading them, I will write a piece that makes use of each.Today, combine Shakespeare's rhetorical devices into a descriptive piece.***The Templeton Tavern had entertained the townsfolk from the day it opened. The men loved it because of the pretty women. The pretty women loved it because of the elegant but elevated atmosphere. The atmosphere had been crafted by one man: Eddie Doushka. Eddie painted. Eddie cooked. Eddie schmoozed. A calming frenzy overcame the bar whenever he poured drinks, and when he diamonded the finger of Emmy Littlestron, not a few female regulars vowed to never visit the Templeton again. They came back the following week.Emmy, ever the overachiever, orchestrated the most fabulous wedding gifts the town had seen: a horse, a boat, a plane, a child. The wedding came before the child, but the child came before the wedding. Before he knew the sex, Eddie loved the baby, and when Emmy nearly died in childbirth, he loved the baby. He loved it. He turned off record player and left bar for weeks and townspeople wondered would he back. The baby, before all things, he thought, the baby. Esther was six pounds and eleven ounces, the baby, the perfect baby. Elegiac! his brother said when he met her. That means not what you think it does, Eddie said.The sun rose when it was hungry. Breasts were in high demand. Chest hair was not. Go back to sleep, Emmy would say. That shouldn't be difficult at all, to go to sleep while the sun cooed in their bed.The townspeople did not want to wait for Eddie to come back to enjoy their Friday nights. But the townspeople did not want to go to the Templeton tavern without Eddie. When he came back to the tavern - Eddie, by himself - the crowd cheered and the calming frenzy set on the bar. The women drank and the men drank and the teenagers got carded and left. He was like a Roman general returned from a great victory. But he missed a perfect little pair of blue eyes.***alliterationrepetition of the same initial consonant sound throughout a line of verseanadiplosisthe repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the nextanaphorarepetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clausesanthimeriasubstitution of one part of speech for anotherantithesisjuxtaposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel constructionassonancerepetition or similarity of the same internal vowel sound in words of close proximityasyndetonomission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or wordschiasmustwo corresponding pairs arranged in a parallel inverse orderdiacoperepetition broken up by one or more intervening wordsellipsisomission of one or more words, which are assumed by the listener or readerepanalepsisrepetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clauseepimonefrequent repetition of a phrase or question; dwelling on a pointepistropherepetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses2hyperbatonaltering word order, or separation of words that belong together, for emphasismalapropisma confused use of words in which an appropriate word is replaced by one with similar sound but (often ludicrously) inappropriate meaningmetaphorimplied comparison between two unlike things achieved through the figurative use of wordsmetonymysubstitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is meant (e.g., "crown" for royalty)onomatopoeiause of words to imitate natural soundsparalepsisemphasizing a point by seeming to pass over itparallelismsimilarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses3parenthesisinsertion of some word or clause in a position that interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence (asides are rather emphatic examples of this)polysyndetonthe repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses4similean explicit comparison between two things using "like" or "as"synecdochethe use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part***Getting Started: 4Character: 4Point of View and Tone: 4Plot and Narrative: 4Dialogue and Voice: 4Descriptive Language and Setting: 4Revision: 3Overall: 3*Level 3*