Rhetoric Explorer Gifts

Tonight: Town Hall Meeting. With free speech, sometimes I think that you get what you pay for!

The Truth

'His best qualities are circumventing questions and evading answers.'

"Would you relax? All you guys are so tense. I just wanted to tell you to your face how enigmatic I find you."

Being and Nothingness Pop-Up! (book)

Why we need poetry. . .

Information...political rhetoric

'the selling of seashells by the seashore was sluggish.'

'I don't like to brag, but I'm the guy who coined the phrase, 'Honey, I'm Home'.'

Roger feels that there are only two inante instincts in men and women. One is satisfaction of biological needs...the other is self-actualization.

Reading: Phonics. Using phonics, you learn to read by the sounds of letters. Any questions? Yes. Why does "phonics" begin with "p-h" and not with "f"?

Masters of Political Oratory

'Actually, I think my use of hyperbole is not only iconoclastic, it is potentially revolutionary.'

'It says here you can talk trash in five languages.'

"'Parent' should always be an action verb."

And now, for a rebuttal.

A Semicolon.

'Sorry - I only donate big.'

'Thoreau, doing research on chapter 7'

Professor Dubreuil is blow away by the dynamic vitality of Dean Richmond's rhetoric.

"For today's lesson, you're going to teach me about pronouns."

Rush Limbaugh

"I just completely disagree with what you just said about America lacking focus."

Move Right

'Perhaps we do need a plan 'B'.'

Apostrophe. . . Apostropher

If You Can't Beat Them

"Smart stuff, Chip, but wise up and dumb it down."

Your logic is flaccid and your data suppositional, dawg!

Language of politics.

"Past-present-future...Faith-hope-charity...Huey-Dewy-Louie."

Yep, that's me in a pea pod! In a pea pod�?? I think "nutshell" has been vastly overused.

"Is this speech pie-in-the-sky nonsense or aspirational?"

Today's Topic: "Intelligent Design." Do you believe in "intelligent design"? I did until I met you.

Violent Rhetoric