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For example, in his 1911 – 12 series of essays I gather the limbs of Osiris, Pound writes of Daniel's line " pensar de lieis m ' es repaus " (" it rests me to think of her ") ( from the canzone En breu brizara ' l temps braus ): " You cannot get statement simpler than that, or clearer, or less rhetorical ".
An example of this rhetorical strategy is attributed to Michel Foucault by John Searle, regarding philosopher Jacques Derrida: " Michel Foucault once characterized Derrida's prose style to me as " obscurantisme terroriste.
Depending on context, the Peacock Throne can be construed as a metonymy, which is a rhetorical device for an allusion relying on proximity or correspondence, as for example referring to actions of the Mughal ruler or the shah or as " actions of the throne.
: The central episode of the Merchant's Tale is like a fabliau, though of a very unusual sort: It is cast in the high style, and some of the scenes ( the marriage feast, for example ) are among Chaucer's most elaborate displays of rhetorical art.
Such an analysis, for example may reveal the particular motivations or ideologies of a rhetor, how he or she interprets the aspects of a rhetorical situation, or how cultural ideologies are manifested in an artifact.
In William Harmon ’ s A Handbook to Literature, for example, aporia is identified as “ a difficulty, impasse, or point of doubt and indecision ” while also noting that critics such as Derrida have employed the term to “ indicate a point of undecidability, which locates the site at which the text most obviously undermines its own rhetorical structure, dismantles, or deconstructs itself ” ( 39 ).
The rhetorical antithesis between the pleasure and pain from love's dart continued through the 17th century, as for example, in these classically inspired images from The Fairy-Queen:
An example from one of his earliest sermons, titled Secundum Lucam, describes with vivid rhetorical force the unpleasantries of Hell ( notice the alliteration, parallelism, and rhyme ):
In addition to Plato and Xenophon, Antisthenes, Aeschines of Sphettos, Phaedo of Elis, Euclid of Megara, Simon the Shoemaker, Theocritus, Tissaphernes and Aristotle all wrote Socratic dialogues, and Cicero wrote similar dialogues in Latin on philosophical and rhetorical themes, for example De re publica.
* Daily Mail Island, a reality TV show where several normal people are deposited on an island and not allowed access to any media other than the strongly right-wing and conservative Daily Mail newspaper, leading to them becoming progressively more irrational and brutal as the series progresses-for example, tying teenage lovers together with sacks on their heads and beating them, or sealing a teenager caught masturbating into a coffin filled with broken glass and dog faeces and throwing it over a cliff and their language devolving into rhetorical questions and sarcastic snorts.
An advocate of gendered spheres of society, Sigourney followed the example of Hannah More in creating a gendered rhetorical theory.
At a higher level, narrative structures feature a realistic temporal flow guided by tension and relaxation ; thus, for example, events or rhetorical figures may be treated as syntagmas of epic structures.
The Greek term for " push " was used in the same metaphorical manner as the English word is ( for example it was also used to describe the process of rhetorical arguments ) and so cannot be said to necessarily describe a literal, physical, push of the enemy, although it is possible that it did.
Linguistic scholars contrived the sentence " Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo " as an example to make a particular rhetorical point.
He is still sometimes pompous and rhetorical, but less so than, for example, in the lectures Dell ' origine e dell ' ufficio della letteratura.
Genette is largely responsible for the reintroduction of a rhetorical vocabulary into literary criticism, for example such terms as trope and metonymy.
For example, duplicative language used as parallelism can have a strong rhetorical effect.
However, it must be pointed out that such analogies were not always direct: terms used in musica poetica do not always correspond equivalently to their rhetorical counterparts ( for example, in oratory, anaphora means a straightforward repetition of a word, but in music it can denote various kinds of repetitive device, such as the development of a subject through imitation ( fugue ); also, the presence of a rhetorical figure in the text being set to music did not imply an automatic application of that figure's musical equivalent ( that is, it was never mandatory for composers to respond to such verbal ideas as " going up " with rising musical phrases ( known as anabasis or ascensus in musica poetica ).

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However, algorithms are also implemented by other means, such as in a biological neural network ( for example, the human brain implementing arithmetic or an insect looking for food ), in an electrical circuit, or in a mechanical device.
A device that converts signals from one type to another ( for example, a light signal in photons to a DC signal in amperes ) is a transducer, a transformer, or a sensor.
As an example of a common over-centre device, a ratchet goes over centre as it is turned in the forward direction.
A calendar is also a physical device ( often paper ) ( for example, a desktop calendar or a wall calendar ).
A charge-coupled device ( CCD ) is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value.
Therefore the electrons flow into the polarized electrical device and out of, for example, the connected electrical circuit.
In Unix-like operating systems, many files have no direct association with a physical storage device: < tt >/ dev / null </ tt > is a prime example, as are just about all files under < tt >/ dev </ tt >, < tt >/ proc </ tt > and < tt >/ sys </ tt >.
For example, CP / M used a command syntax similar to RT-11's, and even retained the awkward PIP program used to copy data from one computer device to another.
They are used to emulate a hardware device, particularly in virtualization environments, for example when a DOS program is run on a Microsoft Windows computer or when a guest operating system is run on, for example, a Xen host.
For example a virtual network adapter is used with a virtual private network, while a virtual disk device is used with iSCSI.
The best example for virtual device drivers can be " Daemon Tools ".
They may be powered by direct current ( for example a battery powered portable device or motor vehicle ), or by alternating current from a central electrical distribution grid.
A subclass of this is focused ion beam milling, where gallium ions are used to produce an electron transparent membrane in a specific region of the sample, for example through a device within a microprocessor.
* Class-A designs are simpler than other classes ; for example class-AB and-B designs require two devices ( push – pull output ) to handle both halves of the waveform ; class A can use a single device single-ended.
For example, the Linux Amiga framebuffer device driver allows the use of several other display modes.
For example, in Shadowrun, a tactical nuclear device was detonated near FASA's offices at 1026 W. Van Buren St in Chicago, Illinois.
The most telling passage reads: " We have an example of these things ( that act on the senses ) in sound and fire of that children's toy which is made in many parts of the world ; i. e. a device no bigger than one's thumb.
This includes people who do simple modifications to graphing calculators, video game consoles, electronic musical keyboards or other device ( see CueCat for a notorious example ) to expose or add functionality to a device that was unintended for use by end users by the company who created it.
One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as a mere plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatization of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire.
For example, every device ( such as an intermediate router ) forwarding an IP datagram first decrements the time to live ( TTL ) field in the IP header by one.
Another example of his inventive genius was the grasshopper escapement – a control device for the step-by-step release of a clock's driving power.

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for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.
Beckett's own work is an example.
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.
Gustaf Vasa is a superb example, and Charles 10,, the conqueror of Denmark, hardly less so.
For example, suppose a man wearing a $200 watch, driving a 1959 Rolls Royce, stops to ask a man on the sidewalk, `` What time is it ''??
In the extreme and oversimplified example suggested in Figure 3, the organization is more easily understood and more predictable in behavior.
The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..
This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.
In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??
English philosopher Samuel Alexander's debt to Wordsworth and Meredith is a recent interesting example, as also A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the English romantics, chiefly Shelley and Wordsworth.
In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.
One specific example is a secret `` fraternity '' which will `` coordinate anti-Communist efforts ''.

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