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Writing Devices - Rhetoric
Subjectio
Examples
Effect: Subjecto to create for the reader a sense of intimidation through a type of interrogation; to create a sense of authority or superiority by asking questions the questioner may in fact know the answers to.
- What does Marsellus Wallace look like? What? What country are you from? What? What? Wh - ? "What" ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What? What? English, motherfucker, do you speak it? Yes! Yes! Then you know what I'm sayin'! Yes! Describe what Marsellus Wallace looks like. What? Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time! He's bald. Does he look like a bitch? - Quentin Tarantino
- I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking. 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Now to tell you the truth I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk? - Dirty Harry
Effect: to use subjectio to show disdain for a subject (sometimes by a combination of question and answer) directed against an adversary in argument.
- "Why was Frederick W. Thomas insulted with a place as the author of one song, among the miscellaneous writers, after his having been written to, and 'his biography and best articles' solicited? Was it not because he did not obey your dictatorial and impertinent request to write for you the biography of Mrs. Welby?"'
- Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To 'Why am I here?' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus. - Enid Bagnold
- Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? Oh, what did you see, my darling young one? - Bob Dylan (layered with anaphora)
- What frees the prisoner in his lonely cell, chained within the bondage of rude walls, far from the owl of Thebes? What fires and stirs the woodcock in his springe or wakes the drowsy apricot betides? What goddess doth the storm toss'd mariner offer her most tempestuous prayers to? Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! - Monty Python's Flying Circus
- "Was I not born in the realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country? Is not my kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to other's harm? What turmoil have I made in this commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard to the same?" - Queen Elizabeth I
- For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity? - Shakespeare, Sonnet 3
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