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This episode deals with tropes as rhetorical devices.  George gives an absolutely groan inducing way to remember antomasia.  The ghosts of Mr. Poe and Mr. Shakespeare give examples of antonomasia, metaphor, simile, synecdoche, onomatapeia from their works. (Some of the extended metaphors in this episode include Shakespeare’s All the World’s a Stage and Poe’s The Conqueror Worm. 

• 00:01 Introduction
• 00:24 Tired, stereotypical tropes
• 04:54 Antonomasia
• 06:38 Metaphor
• 07:20 All the World’s a Stage as metaphor
• 09:44 The Conqueror Worm as metaphor
• 11:53 Metaphors and similes
• 14:29 Synecdoche
• 16:05 Metonomy
• 17:02 Paranomasia
• 18:58 Onomatapoeia
• 19:54 The Bells as onomatapoeia
• 24:00 Two special sources
• 26:35 Future episode
• 27:19 Sources

• What is a trope as a rhetorical device?
• What is antomasia?
• Name a theatre metaphor from the works of Shakespeare.
• Name a theatre metaphor from the works of Poe.
• What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
• Give an example of synecdoche by Shakespeare and Poe.
• What is paraomasia?
• How is The Bells an example of onomatapoia?

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