I've done another little video essay with the splendid people at Little White Lies. It's about the rhetorical trope of epistrophe.
And, just to end every blogpost with the same words, The Illustrated Etymologicon is coming out in November.
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The *Illustrated* Etymologicon? Brilliant! That will be my birthday present to myself. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThe epistrophe video was brilliant. But I confess I was hoping for a shout-out to Thelonious.
ReplyDeleteSurely Blowing in the Wind is also an example of anaphora: 'how many times' repeated at the beginning of the line.
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