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Rhetorical figures in the Eolus episode of James Joyce's Ulysses

"...the progress of the book is in fact like the progress of some sandblast... each successive episode, dealing with some province of artistic culture (rhetoric or music or dialectic) leaves behind it a burnt up field. Since I wrote the Sirens I find it impossible to listen to music of any kind." --Joyce to Harriet Weaver, 20 July 1919 [cite]

The Joyceans I'm aware of unanimously reject this comment as typical of Joyce-the-delusional-egomaniac-exaggerator... but the 'iq infinity' philosophy is happy to extend him the benefit of the doubt.

After studying Joyce's Ulysses notes [qv], I find it credible that Cyclops includes a full survey of political philosophy, and I'm willing to take on faith that Sirens does an inventory of musical forms. Oxen obviously surveys the evolution of English prose styles. And 'dialectic' in the Joyce-quote must refer to Scylla and Charybdis.

But many other chapters are more baffling: Nausikaa? Hades?? Lestrygonians???

Eolus, however, is surely the most accessible of all, because so many of the rhetorical figures have been defined and named! Contemplating Gifford's very, very preliminary inventory, one can't fail to be staggered by Joyce's cleverness, if nothing else.

The identifications below started from the appendix to Gifford's "Ulysses Annotated" [Amazon] but I'm extending that list, now. Gifford has only scratched the surface of the chapter, and I'm afraid he got about half of them wrong (though there are no 'official' definitions). He got most of them from Stuart Gilbert, who very likely got some from Joyce directly. These are tagged '(SG)' below.

Approximate breakdown:

                      good   semi   bad  ??   total
Gilbert via Gifford    38     26    11    1    76
Gifford alone          21     17    11    1    50
Gilbert alone          11      3     1    7    22
totals                 70     46    23    9   148

What's more, Joyce almost certainly arranged the examples to reflect the other structures of the book [more] and/or the characters' personalities, etc. (The ultimate point for me is to identify the full range of possible rhetorical devices, as a step towards better artificial intelligence:) [AI FAQ]

And we have the difficulty that a lot of the text is Joyce depicting Bloom's and Stephen's thinking, so rhetorical labels often aren't relevant-- they're not trying to sway anyone!

Gifford is presumably right, though, that Aristotle's three-types-of-oratory are embodied in Dan Dawson (epideictic?), Seymour Bushe (forensic?), and John F Taylor (deliberative?).

The Silva Rhetoricae webpages on this topic are very clear and seem thorough, including etymology and pronunciation.

Useful Silva index-pages: [list] [groupings]

Useful Silva groupings: pathos, word-arrangement, letter-arrangement, omission, meaning-games, sound-games, testimony, vivid description, ironies

[Gifford's notes are indented, with bold.]

7.03 "trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley, started" (there should be a name for this rhythmic onomatopoeia)

7.04 "Blackrock, Kingstown..." (there's something newspaper-like in this flurry of placenames)

7.10 "Right and left parallel clanging ringing a doubledecker and a singledeck" (the left-right motif echoes the chapter's organ: the lungs: also breathing in and out.)

7.13 ecphonesis [def] "Start, Palmerston Park!"

Sadly, Gifford is already wrong with this one-- it's exclamatory but not emotional rhetoric! (Good example at 7.318 below.)

7.14 (SG) metonymy [def] "THE WEARER OF THE CROWN"

Incredibly, this is wrong too-- Joyce mentions the wearer, not just the crown. (Though I suppose since the wearing is a symbolic and occasional act, it's metonymy in that sense...?)

7.21 (SG) chiasmus [def] "Grossbooted draymen... Prince's stores."

Wrong again, I think: chiasmus must be ideas-not-words. This is antimetabole

[Different distinction on schemes-page?]

(The reversal also creates a left-right-symmetry motif.)

7.21 "dullthudding" (there should be a name for this Joycean compounding)

7.32 "Scissors and paste." (cliche? also, Joyce caricatured his writing technique as scissors-and-paste, because he collected individual phrases in his notebooks and carefully worked them into the text.)

7.34 "par" (professional jargon)

7.35 "we" (editorial 'we'?)

7.43 "between the newsboards" (left-right again)

7.45 "steered by an umbrella" (personification? SG: metaphor)

7.46 "The broadcloth back ascended" (synecdoche?)

7.47 (SG) diasyrm [diasyrmus] "All his brains are in the nape of his neck"

Gifford says this is any disparaging expression. The def I found says it has to be a ridiculous comparison, which this is not.

7.48 epimone [def] "Fat folds of neck, fat, neck, fat, neck."

Not even close-- not a plea. Silva's repetition group doesn't have anything close. This is a depiction-in-words of 'stripes'-- like saying 'black white black white'. (SG: anaphora)

7.49 "like Our Saviour" (simile? or just comparison?)

7.57 ellipsis [def] "Hand on his heart."

Gifford is referring to the missing 'His' which is not omitted rhetorically here-- it's just Bloom's internal shorthand.

7.59 (SG) diaeresis [def] "Co-ome thou lost one"

If this really applies to song-lyrics it's one of the commonest rhetorical figures there.

[text]

7.61 metonymy [def] "THE CROZIER AND THE PEN"

This is fine... yes? (It probably deserves a special name since there's a pair of them, though.) (SG: concrete synecdoche)

7.63 (SG) asyndeton [def] "They watched the knees, legs, boots vanish."

Gifford's pick is just about the missing 'and', and is probably okay on that score, but Joyce here is doing the 'stripes' trick again, but here it's time-stripes not stripes in space. (cf Nacheinander/Nabeneinander distinction in ch3. [annotation])

7.63 synecdoche [def] "Neck"

It's likely Joyce was up to much more than simple synecdoche here.

7.69 "as he lifted... as he passed in... along the warm dark stairs... along the now reverberating boards... Thumping, thumping." (anaphora &co)

7.71 "will he save the circulation?" (pun on 'save')

7.78 "THE DISSOLUTION OF A MOST RESPECTED DUBLIN BURGESS" (sort of an anticlimax?)

7.82 "fermenting" (analogy?)

7.83 (SG) epiphora epistrophe "Working away, tearing away."

Silva cites anaphora but not epiphora.

7.90 "Queen Anne is dead." (Bloom is doing a series of stylistic impersonations, projecting himself into the many personalities that a newspaper embodies.)

7.97 "M.A.P. Mainly all pictures." (acronym?)

7.100 antanaclasis [def] or antistasis [def] "More Irish than the Irish."

(It appears the two rhetorical terms are synonymous?)

This example is subtle, and reverses the usual pattern of putting the more-obvious meaning first. (SG: ploce)

7.113 (SG) enthymeme [def] "If you want to draw the cashier is just going to lunch"

This may technically be enthymeme, but in that sense enthymeme is common and boring. What's interesting here is that Bloom means 'if you want to pay me back now' so this is a sort of euphemism. [no-def!?]

In the Gilbert schema, Joyce identified the 'technic' of this chapter as "enthymemic" [more]

7.119 "Three bob... Three weeks. Third hint." (paregmenon or polyptoton)

[text]

7.128 (SG) hyperbaton [def] or anastrophe [def] "Hell of a racket they make"

This is just Irish-English word order, not for rhetorical effect. (That 'Hell' is rhetorical, though.)

7.128 apocope [def] "Nannan"

Joe Hynes also uses this nickname for Nannetti at 12.825. It's clearly not just a trimmed last syllable-- did he maybe have a stutter? (It sounds like babytalk, too.)

7.129 (SG) anacoluthia [anacoluthon] "Maybe he understands what I."

I don't understand why Silva doesn't link this from the omission category. It seems a better choice than 'ellipsis' above for Joyce's stream-of-consciousness omissions.

7.135 "think he has a touch of jaundice" (parenthesis?)

7.145 "You know yourself, councillor, just what he wants." (definitely rhetorical)

7.162 "hearing the loud throbs... watching the silent typesetters" (parallelism?)

[text]

7.168 alliteration [def] "peeled pear"

Okay...

7.171 "I could have said" (afterwit?)

7.174 (SG) onomatopoeia [def] "Sllt."

There should be a distinction between words that sound like what they mean, and words like this that are just representations of sounds in letters (with no 'meaning').

7.175 "with sllt the first batch" (this needs a name)

7.176 prosopopoeia [def] or personification [def] "Doing its level best to speak."

Yes.

[text]

7.206 (SG) metathesis [def] "mangiD. kcirtaP."

Technically correct, but somewhat more.

7.207 "Dear, O dear!" (rhetorical)

7.210 (SG) polysyndeton [def] "And then the lamb and the cat and the dog and the stick and the water and the butcher..."

Okay.

7.212 climax [def] "...and then the angel of death kills the butcher..."

(Followed by a decrease, though?)

7.218 anthimeria [def] "Now am I going to tram it out all the way...?"

Excellent!

7.219 "Number? Yes. Same as Citron's house." (mnemonic?)

7.226 (SG) idiotism [no def] "Citronlemon?"

Gifford awards this to Bloom's "talent for compounding" but if it deserves any rhetorical term it wouldn't be that one. (Omission of a wordbreak?)

7.228 "and stowed it away, buttoned" (there might be a name for this-- cf dangling participle)

7.230 anacoluthia [anacoluthon] "I could go home still... No. Here. No."

(Yawn.)

7.233 "Ned Lambert it is." (Irish word-order)

7.236 "ERIN, GREEN GEM OF THE SILVER SEA" (metaphor, at least)

7.237 (SG) hypotyposis [def] "The ghost walks"

Okay. (Ellmann says this is referring to Ruttledge the cashier, and so a private, local-to-these-offices slang.)

7.237 anthimeria [def] "murmured softly, biscuitfully"

Very different from 'tram it' example above-- not-yet-present Stephen's version vs Bloom's?

7.241 (SG) apostrophe [def] "Agonising Christ, wouldn't it give you a heartburn on your arse?"

Technically correct, I guess.

7.241 catachresis [def] "a heartburn on your arse"

M-m-m-maybe. Something colorful, anyway.

7.244 "tho'" (this deserves a name too, cf below) (SG: apocope)

7.246 (SG) aphaeresis [def] "'neath the shadows"

Yes, I think.

7.246 (SG) syncope [def] "o'er"

Yes.

7.246 (SG) solecism [def] "pensive bosom"

(Only if you think the heart can't be pensive???)

(Dawson's style is very like Gerty's-- if Gerty's monolog is Bloom's fantasy then Dawson might be part of the inspiration?) [more]

7.250 "Changing his drink" (could Joyce be cataloguing Simon's rhetoric-of-contempt?)

7.253 (SG) paradiastole [def] "overarsing leafage"

I think not-- just a pun or paronomasia

7.253 "O boys! O boys!" (nameable trope?)

7.254 "And Xenophon looked upon Marathon... and Marathon looked on the sea." (syllepsis?)

7.258 "and, hungered, made ready" (nameable?)

7.264 "Johnny, make room for your uncle." (Bloom imagines community of corpses, carried over from community of rats in Hades) [qv]

7.266 "an odd shaky cheque" (it's really the handwriting not the check that's shaky)

7.270 (SG) irony [def] "A recently discovered fragment of Cicero's"

Vague but correct, I guess. (There's also a rhetorical strategy of assuming that Bloom is educated enough to get the allusion.)

[text]

7.273 "Whose land? Mr Bloom said simply." (Bloom is rhetorically asking whose words.)

7.274 "Most pertinent question" (MacHugh is intentionally misinterpreting Bloom's question as political.)

7.274 "With an accent on the whose." (rhetorical something?)

7.293 "That hectic flush spells finis for a man." (nameable?)

7.299 "To be seen and heard." (nameable?)

7.303 "A mighthavebeen." (nameable?)

7.305 "Their wigs to show their grey matter." (paradox?)

7.309 metaphor [def] "Weathercocks"

Sure, but not remotely the first!

7.309 "Hot and cold in the same breath. Wouldn't know which to believe. One story good till you hear the next." (Bloom/Joyce deprecating rhetoric in general?)

7.316 "Peaks towering high on high" (SG: paregmenon)

7.318 (SG) ecphonesis [def] "Blessed and eternal God!"

Yes... unless it's apostrophe? [def]

7.325 (SG) prolepsis [def] or protocatalepsis [def] "The moon, professor MacHugh said"

Neither, I think. The latter is closer, but it's not an argument he's anticipating (and answering), just an image.

[text]

7.327 (SG) synonymy [synonymia] "the vista far and wide"

Better: tautologia

7.336 (SG) hypocorism [no def] "Doughy Daw! he cried."

A pet name, per Gifford.

7.350 "Getonouthat" (nameable?)

7.354 "Quite right too" (another simon-ism)

[text]

7.359 "North Cork militia!" (nonsequitur!) (SG: paralogism)

7.367 cretic [no def] "Ohio"

(Would Joyce have included metrical terms in this category??? They might be justified if they had rhetorical force-- cf acatalectic.)

7.369 "Long, short and long." (more stripes?)

7.370 (SG) synaeresis [def] "O, HARP EOLIAN!"

I think not.

7.379 "laying a firm hand on his shoulder" (there's probably a name for this in rhetorical theory, too?)

7.380 (SG) exergasia [def] "That'll be all right.... That's all right."

Looks good.

7.388 "dead cert" (slang)

7.393 (SG) anagram [metathesis] "I hear feetstoops."

Or spoonerism?

7.396 "in the air blue scrawls" (this poetry is a Joycean rhetorical innovation-- subliming-the-comma)

7.398 (SG) epanaphora [symploce] "It wasn't me, sir. It was the big fellow shoved me, sir."

Gifford says Gilbert says this is anaphora (weak) plus epiphora [no def] plus epistrophe (yes). It's juvenile rhetoric, though.

7.399 "There's a hurricane blowing." (hyperbole!)

7.401 "Lenehan began to paw the tissues up... grunting" (opposite of personify?)

7.409 "J.J. O'Molloy turned the files crackingly over, murmuring, seeking" (a couple here?)

7.411 "Evening Telegraph here" (identification?)

7.411 "Mr Bloom phoned" (this isn't the current usage, so maybe anthimeria?)

[text]

7.417 "making a grimace" (literal translation of French idiom?)

7.420 "Knee, Lenehan said." (nameable?)

7.422 (SG) metalepsis [def] "The accumulation of the anno Domini."

Not even close.

7.425 "The noise of two shrill voices, a mouthorgan, echoed" (suppression of conjunction)

7.427 zeugma [def] "Who fought with heart and hand."

Weak syllepsis?

7.435 "Begone! he said. The world is before you." (rhetorical flourish)

7.436 "Back in no time" (not literally true, of course)

7.442 "Show." (telegraphic style?)

7.447 "behind him hue and cry" (nameable?)

7.448 "O, my rib risible!" (alliteration, at least)

7.449 (SG) truncated simile [simile] "Steal upon larks."

(ie, a metaphor???)

7.457 "Come on then" (self-contradiction?)

7.459 "in the air and against the wood" (zeugma?)

7.462 (SG) epanalepsis [def] "Seems to be... not always as it seems."

Good.

7.462 symploce [def] "Seems to be... not always as it seems."

Wildly wrong.

(MacHugh thinks Crawford is drunk, but O'Molloy may be saying that alcoholism has driven him mad.)

7.463 "Who has the most matches?" (indirect request)

[text]

7.464 "THE CALUMET OF PEACE" (SG: xenia)

7.466 "Lenehan promptly struck a match for them" (indirect request? rhetoric of sponging!)

7.468 "Thanky vous" (bog French)

7.471 (SG) synoeceiosis [synoeciosis] "Twas rank and fame that tempted thee, 'Twas empire charmed thy heart."

Gifford blames this on Gilbert.

7.474 "You bloody old Roman empire?" (category error?)

7.477 "The word reminds one somehow of fat in the fire." (synesthetic onomatopoeia?)

7.481 "We haven't got the chance of a snowball in hell." (SG: catachresis)

7.483 "THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME" (cliche)

7.484 "quiet claws" (cf oxymoron?)

7.486 paregmenon [def] "imperial, imperious, imperative"

And/or: polyptoton

7.487 "elocutionary arms" (something)

7.489 prolepsis [def] "Vast, I allow"

Better: protocatalepsis [def]

7.489 (SG) synchoresis [def] "Vast, I allow: but vile."

Maybe.

7.489 "Cloacae: sewers." (metaphrase, see below)

7.493 (SG) parenthesis [def] "(on our shore he never set it)"

Okay.

7.494 tapinosis [def] and epiphonema "It is meet to be here. Let us construct a watercloset."

I don't think so. But the Linati schema [qv] characterises Eolus as 'the mockery of victory' so we're in the right territory.

7.494 epiphonema [def] "It is meet to be here. Let us construct a watercloset."

I don't think so.

7.496 (SG) tautology [tautologia] "Our old ancient ancestors"

I'd call this synonymia because it's a calculated effect.

7.497 "Guinness's" (pun)

7.499 "nature's gentlemen" (something)

7.505 "First my riddle" (interruption?)

7.508 (SG) allegory [def] "Youth led by Experience visits Notoriety"

I guess... (SG: also abstract synecdoche)

[text]

7.513 "Reflect, ponder, excogitate, reply." (synonymia)

7.521 "That old pelters." (SG: topika)

7.521 (SG) anastrophe [def] "Was he short taken?"

Just Irish, not rhetorical.

7.528 "Are you turned...?" (something)

7.533 (SG) parataxis [no def] "By Jesus, she... in the Star and Garter. Oho!"

I think this is right-- but Joyce analysed the Tristan vignette into hypotactic (Isolde) and paratactic (Tristan) sections, with his definitions seeming backwards compared to Jesperson's et al...? [more]

7.537 "A woman brought sin into the world." (this is Stephen's characteristic enthymeme)

7.547 "a thankyou job." (something)

[text]

7.555 paralogism [no def] "I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination."

Gifford just means 'faulty reasoning' here.

7.557 (SG) metaphrase [no def] "Domine! Lord!"

Gifford says: a direct translation.

7.565 enthymeme [def] "We are liege subjects of the catholic chivalry of Europe that foundered at Trafalgar"

There must be a better one here.

7.572 "They went forth to battle... but they always fell." (SG: litotes)

7.574 (SG) mimesis [def] "Boohoo! Lenehan wept"

Maybe.

7.575 "Poor, poor, poor Pyrrhus!" (something)

7.582 (SG) antonomasia [def] "I can't see the Joe Miller."

Looks good.

7.591 (SG) paronomasia [def] "Rows of cast steel"

Yes, a plain old pun.

7.591 "Gee!" (something)

7.594 (SG) oxymoron [def] "I feel a strong weakness."

Yes.

7.599 "Paris, past and present" (allegory-ish?)

7.601 erotesis or erotema [def] "Or was it you shot the lord lieutenant of Finland between you?"

Okay I think. (Odd, though.)

7.603 "We were only thinking about it" (I dunno what it is... but I love it!)

[text]

7.604 "OMNIUM GATHERUM" (something)

7.605 "All the talents" (there's something omitted here, exposition-wise)

7.605 (SG) synathroesmus [def] "Law, the classics... Literature, the press."

Not exactly?

7.610 (SG) pleonasm [def] "Dublin's prime favourite."

Okay (but why not tautologia or synonymia?)

7.610 paradiastole [def] "Dublin's prime favourite."

I think not quite-- just polite exaggeration?

7.612 anagram [no def] "a fresh of breath air"

??? (Only by analogy of words for letters.)

7.612 (SG) auxesis [def] "I caught a cold in the park. The gate was open."

This is more like euphemism, or coded allusion...? (It might refer to: Molly's lowcut blouses, Molly's adulterous tendencies, Bloom-as-HCE)

7.618 (SG) anaphora [def] "See it in your face. See it in your eye."

Okay...?

7.622 anticlimax [no def] "Father, Son and Holy Ghost and Jakes M'Carthy."

Maybe.

7.630 professional jargon [no def] "That was a pen."

Lame. (also metonymy)

7.650 (SG) anacoenosis [def] "Look at here. What did Ignatius Gallaher do?"

Good, but there are earlier examples in this passage.

[text]

7.663 simile [def] "The loose flesh of his neck shook like a cock's wattles."

Okay-- this seems like the least demanding of tropes, so we may ask why Joyce deployed it here.

7.674 (SG) hysteron proteron [def] "CLEVER, VERY"

Wrong, I think, but some form of hyperbaton

7.676 syllepsis [def] "Gave it to them on a hot plate, Myles Crawford said, the whole bloody history."

No way.

7.680 "the besthearted bloody Corkman the Lord ever put the breath of life in" (hyperbole)

7.683 (SG) palindrome [no def] "Madam, I'm Adam. And Able was I ere I saw Elba."

Yes. (Lenehan gets the shallowest ones.)

7.688 "That's press." (SG: professional jargon)

7.690 syllepsis [def] "The father of scare journalism, Lenehan confirmed, and the brother-in-law of Chris Callinan."

This is good... yes? (Close, anyway.) (SG: zeugma)

7.695 (SG) metathesis [def] "Clamn dever"

Spoonerism?

7.711 "Would anyone wish that mouth for her kiss? How do you know?" (SG: apostrophe)

[text]

7.722 "But I old men" (translation of Dante with words dropped?)

7.723 (SG) anastomosis [no def] "underdarkneath"

Good one.

7.723 (SG) homoioteleuton [def] "mouth south: tomb womb"

Feeble! 'Rhyme' would be better.

7.729 (SG) epitrope [def] "I hold no brief, as at present advised, for the third profession qua profession but"

I don't see it.

7.729 metabasis [def] "I hold no brief, as at present advised, for the third profession qua profession but"

I can't tell from the def.

7.730 (SG) Hibernicism [no def] "your Cork legs are running away with you"

Joyce would have had a better term, surely.

7.736 (SG) epigram [no def] "Sufficient for the day is the newspaper thereof."

Maybe.

7.744 (SG) aposiopesis [def] "He would have been on the bench long ago, the professor said, only for... But no matter."

Certainly not strong emotion-- this is self-censorship, very characteristic of the chapter.

[text]

7.770 polyptoton [def] "has wrought in marble of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring"

Okay.

7.771 anaphora [def] "deserves to live, deserves to live."

No! if anything, epistrophe

7.780 "Muchibus thankibus." (SG: parody)

7.782 or 787 epanalepsis [def] "Professor Magennis... Magennis."

I guess, though they're widely separated.

7.794 appositio [def] "Mr Justice Fitzgibbon, the present lord justice of appeal"

There must be many other examples?

7.804 (SG) paralipsis [def] "It was the speech, mark you, the professor said, of a finished orator, full of courteous haughtiness and pouring in chastened diction, I will not say the vials of his wrath but pouring the proud man's contumely upon the new movement."

No way.

[text]

7.818 (SG) epanorthosis [def] "he looked (though he was not) a dying man."

Farfetched but interesting.

7.828 enantiosis [def] "Great was my admiration in listening to the remarks addressed to the youth of Ireland a moment since by my learned friend."

Wrong, I believe.

7.839 anadiplosis [def] "I heard his words and their meaning was revealed to me. [par] It was revealed to me"

I guess so, from Stephen's point of view. (SG: epanalepsis)

7.844 (SG) invective [no def] "Ah, curse you!"

Sort of.

7.846 antithesis [def] "You are a tribe of nomad herdsmen: we are a mighty people. You have no cities nor no wealth: our cities are hives of humanity and our galleys, trireme and quadrireme, laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters of the known globe."

Yes, I think so.

7.846 (SG) incrementum [no def] "You are a tribe of nomad herdsmen: we are a mighty people. You have no cities nor no wealth: our cities are hives of humanity and our galleys, trireme and quadrireme, laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters of the known globe. You have but emerged from primitive conditions:"

Not really.

7.848 "all manner merchandise" (SG: archaeism)

7.863 (SG) anabasis or climax [def] "he bowed his head and bowed his will and bowed his spirit "

Yes?

7.864 isocolon [def] "he would never have brought the chosen people out of their house of bondage, nor followed the pillar of the cloud by day. He would never have spoken with the Eternal amid lightnings on Sinai's mountaintop nor ever have come down"

Maybe.

[text]

7.874 (SG) polyhyphenation [no def] "A sudden-at-the-moment-though-from-lingering-illness-often-previously-expectorated demise,"

Okay... (SG: also periphrasis)

7.875 (SG) paragoge [def] "expectorated"

Silva says this would have to be added at the end...?

7.888 archaism [no def] "'Tis the hour, methinks"

Sounds okay. (cf Oxen, though???)

7.890 redundancy [no def] "That it be and hereby is resolutely resolved."

What happened to tautologia, synonymia, etc?

7.891 tapinosis [def] "To which particular boosing shed...?"

Maybe.

7.894 litotes [def] "We will sternly refuse to partake of strong waters, will we not? Yes, we will not. By no manner of means."

I don't think so. (SG: tapinosis?)

[text]

7.907 (SG) charientismus [def] "I hope you will live to see it published."

Maybe, though it seems more a speculation on Crawford's unpredictability than a soothing of Stephen's nerves.

7.915 epizeuxis [def] "I have much, much to learn."

I guess.

7.921 "DEAR DIRTY DUBLIN" (SG: parable)

7.930 parody with substitution [no def] "Let there be life."

Okay, I guess.

7.947 (SG) oratio recta-obliqua [no def] "They had no idea it was that high."

Gifford says Gilbert says (sounding like Joyce himself) "giving, by quotation of a vulgar form, vivacity to the flatness of a third-person report" (aka the Uncle Charles principle, yes?)

[text]

7.969 (SG) anticlimax [no def] "Terrible tragedy in Rathmines! A child bit by a bellows! "

Yes.

7.980 (SG) abbreviation [no def] "K.M.A."

Yes.

7.991 sarcasmus [def] "He can kiss my royal Irish arse"

Okay.

7.999 (SG) hyperbole [def] "With a heart and a half"

Barely.

[text]

7.1008 Hibernicism [no def] "waxies' Dargle"

Maybe.

7.1018 paronomasia [def] "the onehandled adulterer"

Okay...

7.1022 (SG) neologism [no def] "SPEEDPILLS VELOCITOUS AEROLITHS"

Sounds good.

7.1040 (SG) epanodos [def] "Poor Penelope. Penelope Rich."

???

7.1047 (SG) aparithmesis [no def] "Hackney cars, cabs, delivery waggons, mailvans, private broughams"

Gifford says Gilbert says (sounding like Joyce himself) "enumeration in detail of things in corresponding words of the same grammatical character"

[text]

7.1055 (SG) aporia [def] "Call it, wait, the professor said, opening his long lips wide to reflect. Call it, let me see."

Yes, good.

7.1070 (SG) hapax legomenon [no def] "ANNE WIMBLES"

via Gilbert, a word that occurs only once in a literature.

Reference: Rhetorical forms, ditto

Rhetorical word-processing: article

Regular expressions: portalpage

Eolus and modernism

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