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Restatement I

Exercise 1
Rewrite the following sentences, repeating the underlined word to
create anaphora.
(a) Their need to feel trendy resulted in a house filled with designer
furniture, curtains, clothes, and even soap.

Their need to feel trendy resulted in a house filled with designer

furniture, filled with curtains, filled with clothes, and even filled with
soap.
a) Their need to feel trendy resulted in a house filled with designer
furniture, designer curtains, designer clothes, and even designer soap.
(b) We will search in the hills, among the rocks, in the underbrush, over
the whole area. And we will find the lost child.
We will search in the hills, We will search among the rocks, We will
search in the underbrush, We will search over the whole area. And we
will find the lost child.

(c) We applaud the idea, but right now we don’t have the time, the
money, or the personnel to implement it.
We applaud the idea, but right now we don’t have the time, we don’t
have the money, or we don’t have the personnel to implement it.
 (d) We’ll take the boat out on the lake when the engine is repaired, the
leaks are patched, and we renew our boat license.
We’ll take the boat out on the lake when the engine is repaired, when
the leaks are patched, and when we renew our boat license.

(e) After we take a shower, get dressed, and have breakfast, we will be
ready to visit Aunt Helen.
After we take a shower, after we get dressed, and after we have
breakfast, we will be ready to visit Aunt Helen.

Exercise 2
Write five sentences of your own, each containing anaphora. Two
should have a pair of repeated words or phrases, two should have
three repeated elements, and one should have four. All
five sentences should use elements that differ from each other. For
example, you might use a prepositional phrase, a subordinating
conjunction, a coordinating conjunction, a verb phrase, and a clause.

If I know Chinese, I will read the book in Chinese, I will make the peom in
Chinese, and I will study the intrusment in Chinese.

She dont know anything ab this sport, neither the way to choose the clothes,
neither the way to choose shoes, neither the way to choose the place to play and
neither how to play.
They are just following old life's paths and not knowing the reason to follow them,
not knowing where they will let them go

Exercise 3
Rewrite the following sentences, repeating the underlined word to
create epistrophe.
(a) When the boy arrived home from school, his shoes, clothes, and
books were wet.
When the boy arrived home from school, his shoes were wet, clothes
were wet, and books were wet.
(b) The international construction project required workers and financing
from many countries.
The international construction project required workers from many
countries and financing from many countries.
(c) The new tread on this tire features design, engineering, and
manufacturing advances.
The new tread on this tire features design advances, engineering
advances and manufacturing advances.
(d)
(e) Placing the water well here will be fine if we ignore the fact that the
water table here is quite deep, making drilling, pumping, and storing
the water extremely expensive.
Placing the water well here will be fine if we ignore the fact that the
water table here is quite deep, making drilling the water extremely
expensive, pumping the water extremely expensive, and storing the
water extremely expensive.
 (f) Their fears were relieved as the children, the parents, and finally the
dogs were found safe.
Their fears were relieved as the children were found safe, the parents
were found safe, and finally the dogs were found safe.
Exercise 4
Write five sentences of your own containing epistrophes. Use a mix of verb
phrases, nouns, and adjectives.

I like that chair, he likes that chair, no one thinks that is a bad chair
) It is true that I have a personal library containing old books, unfamiliar books,
strange books but they are all my favorite books.

Exercise 5
Rewrite the following sentences, repeating the underlined words to create
symploce.
(a) The bill is generated and can be paid electronically.
The bill is generated electronically and The bill can be paid
electronically.
(b) Place the outline at the beginning and the recap at the end of each
chapter.
Place the outline at the beginning of each chapter and Place the
recap at the end of each chapter.
(c) This is legislation by and for the people
This is legislation by the people and This is legislation for the people.
(d) These new solar panels cost less, weigh less, and are more efficient
than previous designs.
 These new solar panels cost less than previous designs, These new
solar panels weigh less than previous designs, and These new solar
panels are more efficient than previous designs.
(e) I think this is a good idea but not that.
I think this is a good idea but I think not that good idea.

Exercise 6
Write five sentences exhibiting effective symploce. Use two sets of non-
repeated words for some of the sentences and three sets for others.

They know love is the good material for the cinematic industry, they know love is
the good material for the comunication information industry,.. so they know to
make money they have to understand and know how to apply that in any industry.

The girls always love the beautiful clothes, so the girls like to buy the clothes and
the girls like to hv the good compliment with the their clothes.

Exercise 7
Find three blog posts, web articles, or social media posts and analyze each
one for credibility based on the rhetorical cues you find. What exactly
makes you trust or distrust each writer? Write your analysis for each source
in about fifty words. Include mention of ethos building or diminishing
factors.

Exercise 8
Write five sentences using prefixes and suffixes to create anaphora.
Review Questions
1. Match the rhetorical device with the appropriate example.
_____ A pseudo-event is deliberately staged and performed as news. In
other words, a pseudo-event is imitation news.
_____ Our impatience makes us demand remedies that can be swallowed:
pills to put us to sleep, pills to wake us, pills to makes us happy, pills for
every ailment.
_____ The couple had obviously fallen in love with beige: The carpet was
beige, the furniture was beige, and the walls were beige.
A. anaphora (but not symploce)
B. epistrophe (but not symploce)
C. symploce
2. The most effective use of a short sentence for emphasis is A. several
short sentences together.
B. a short sentence after one or more longer sentences.
C. a short sentence before a longer sentence.
3. Anaphora, epistrophe, and symploce all create emphasis on the
repeated terms or phrases because these devices
A. exploit the natural emphasis given to the beginning and end of word
groups.
B. always include a strong contrast.
C. stress words that would otherwise be easy to forget.

Match the example with the term. _____ epistrophe

_____ symploce
_____ anaphora
A. above the runway, above the hills, above the clouds
B. over the water, into the water, under the water
C. quietly sitting in the chair, quietly nodding in the chair, quietly sleeping in
the chair
5. Without looking at the Diagrams for Schemes of Restatement I on page
130, match the diagram to the name of the device.
_____———􏰀 ———􏰀 ———􏰀
_____􏰀——— 􏰀——— 􏰀———
_____􏰀———􏰂 􏰀———􏰂 A. anaphora
B. epistrophe
C. symploce
Questions for Thought and Discussion
1. Explain how anaphora can create energy and speed to a sentence or
passage. Give some examples.
2. Explain how anaphora can produce a leisurely stroll through a sentence
of passage. Give some examples.
3. If you volunteered at the writing center, how would you advise a student
whose sen- tences were all five to eight words long? What specifically
would you recommend? (“Write longer sentences” is not helpful.)
4. Discuss the difference in feeling, effect, or emphasis between these two
sentences:
In this part of the forest, the light is lower, the temperature is lower, and the
noise is lower. This part of the forest has lower light, lower temperature,
and lower noise.
5. When you write or speak, what do you do to reveal your character, your
ethos? How do you avoid phoniness? How do you encourage trust?