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 rhetorical device is this passage attributed to a speech by Abraham Lincoln about a political adversary in which Lincoln said that his adversary had " dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and come up drier than any other man he knew ".

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 ).

The effective tit for tat strategy is one game theoretic example.

Capturing high ground, for example, has been the central strategy in innumerable battles.

For example, the copy-on-write optimization strategy could not be used.

David W. Packard in his opposition to the deal " massive layoffs as an example of this departure from HP ’ s core values ... that although the founders never guaranteed job security, ' Bill and Dave never developed a premeditated business strategy that treated HP employees as expendable.

* If the entire language does not allow side-effects, then any evaluation strategy can be used ; this gives the compiler freedom to reorder or combine the evaluation of expressions in a program ( for example, using deforestation ).

For example, for many western cultures one very common flirting strategy includes eye contact.

The following example game illustrates a player trying to guess the word hangman using a strategy based solely on letter frequency.

Kate Norgate, for example, argued that John's downfall had been due not to his failure in war or strategy, but due to his " almost superhuman wickedness ", whilst James Ramsay blamed John's family background and his cruel personality for his downfall.

For example, one strategy often in use is the artificial production of proteins, based on the genetic code ( DNA ).

In the example, Alice implements this strategy.

The previous strategy for a misère game can be easily implemented ( for example in Python, below ).

For example, the semantics may define the strategy by which expressions are evaluated to values, or the manner in which control structures conditionally execute statements.

One example of the use of prime numbers in nature is as an evolutionary strategy used by cicadas of the genus Magicicada.

If, for example, the overall goal is to win a war against another country, one strategy might be to undermine the other nation's ability to wage war by preemptively annihilating their military forces.

He adopted the policy of retreating to natural fortifications, and undertook an early example of a scorched earth strategy by burning towns to prevent the Roman legions from living off the land.

For example, if your data contains long lengths of repeated bytes, the RLE ( run-length encoding ) strategy may give good results at higher speed.

The strategy of sectarians taking Greek terms from philosophical contexts and re-applying them to religious contexts was popular in Christianity, the Cult of Isis and other ancient religious contexts including Hermetic ones ( see Alexander of Abonutichus for an example ).

) Another option is to create documentaries around series including extended interviews with the participants and outtakes not seen in the original airings ; the syndicated series American Idol Rewind is an example of this strategy.

) For example, if the Democrats had nominated both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for U. S. President in 2008, it would have allowed the Republican candidate ( John McCain ) to easily win ; the voters who preferred both Clinton and Obama over McCain could not have been relied on to solve the strategy coordination problem on their own.

Such intelligence also allows for more effective pre-deployment training programs where personnel can be taught the most up-to-date developments in IED concealment for example, or undertake tailored training that will enable them to identify the likely attack strategy of enemy forces.

The strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction and the acronym MAD are due to John von Neumann ( 1902 – 1957 ), who had a taste for humorous acronyms, another example being his MANIAC computer.

The United States Air Force, for example, has retrospectively contended that it never advocated MAD as a sole strategy, and that this form of deterrence was seen as one of numerous options in U. S. nuclear policy.

A good example of this type of strategy is the Battle of Thermopylae, where the narrow terrain of a defile was used to funnel the Persian forces, who were numerically superior, to a point where they could not use their size as an advantage.

If proof emerges of the true extent of the state actor's involvement, this strategy can backfire ; for example see Iran-contra and Philip Agee.

For example, if there are several colocated frequency-hopping networks ( as Bluetooth Piconet ), then they are mutually interfering and the strategy of AFH fails to avoid this interference.