[lit-ideas] Re: housekeeping
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:41:07 -0500
My stepdaughter, when she was 14 or so, refused to eat bananas because of
the seeds in them. Seeds? Bananas have seeds?? She tried to show them to
me. I've never been able to look at one or read the word w/out thinking of
her picking at the bananas trying to remove what were to me utterly
invisible items.
Julie Krueger
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> 45. Antimetabole*:
> >
> > * Ask not what you can do for rhetoric, but what rhetoric can do for
> > you.
> >
> >
> > Isn't this a simple chiasmus?
> >
> not what I'm looking for. I think Antimetabole is a form of chiasmus,
> but not vice versa. The key here lies in using the same words exactly,
> but in reverse form. I think A is more correct than C for what I was
> groping in the dark for. BUT... I knew where to come and like finding
> a child, if it doesn't happen in the first 24 hours, you ain't gonna.
> Luckily for me, the wealth of triviata is here to stay.
>
> thanks again to all who participated, there is a fresh lolli in the mail,
> p
>
> p.s. that's right, I know where you live!
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