Writing Devices - Rhetoric Scesis Onomaton Examples Effect: to establish a setting - London. - Charles Dickens - Implacable November weather. - Charles Dickens - Space: the final frontier. - Star Trek Effect: to convey eternal truths - In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will. - Winston Churchill (also an anaphora) - Finders keepers - Like father, like son (layered with anaphora) - O eyes! No eyes, but fountains fraught with tears! O life! No life, but lively form of death! O world! No world, but mass of public wrongs, Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds! O Heavens! - Thomas Kyd Effect: to describe without using verbs, especially weak linking verbs like "to be" and "to have" - A man faithful in friendship, prudent in counsels, virtuous in conversation, gentle in communication, learned in all liberal sciences, eloquent in utterance, comely in gesture, an enemy to naughtiness, and a lover of all virtue and godliness. - Peacham - Brick by brick, block by block, callused hand by callused hand - Barack Obama - A sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that deal corruptly - Isaiah 1:4 Effect: schesis onomaton in order to emphasize a sole phrase the writer deems important enough to stand alone even if not a full sentence - The classics can console. But not enough. - Dereck Walcott Overflow: - Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of man who does not exist.