Amplification Strategies

accumulation Figure of speech in which a speaker or a writer gathers scattered points and lists them together.

amplification General term for all of the ways that an argument, an explanation, or a description can be expanded and enriched.

apophasis The mention of something in disclaiming intention of mentioning it--or pretending to deny what is really affirmed.

apposition Placing side-by-side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first.

Asiatic A prolix or highly ornamented style.

auxesis A gradual increase in intensity of meaning with words arranged in ascending order of force or importance. commoratio Repetition of a point several times in different words.

copia Expansive richness as a stylistic goal. distinctio Explicit references to various meanings of a word--usually for the purpose of removing ambiguities. effectio Personal description; a head-to-toe inventory of a person's physical attributes or charms. enargia A visually powerful description that vividly recreates something or someone in words. epexegesis Adding words or phrases to further clarify or specify a statement already made. epicrisis Circumstance in which a speaker quotes a passage and comments on it. epimone Frequent repetition of a phrase or question; dwelling on a point. euphuism Elaborately patterned prose style. paralepsis Emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it. paraphrase A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning. parenthesis The insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence. pleonasm Redundancy; use of words to emphasize what is clear without them. synathroesmus The piling up of adjectives, often in the spirit of invective.

Margaret Atwood Background information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood Her website: http://www.owtoad.com/

Fr4om HSC Online: http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/english/advanced/critical_study/2471/Speech _Atwood.html Scroll for a multitude of resources and links: http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/atwood/atwood.htm Paul Keating Listen to the speech: http://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/keating.asp News report from 7.30 Report (ABC): http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s120779.htm Responses to the speech: From ABC blog: http://www2b.abc.net.au/guestbookcentral/list.asp?numtoview=&Guestb ookID=408&start=&sort=&filter1=&filter1val=&filter2= &filter2val=&filter3=&filter3val=&view=&advanced=&Action=&pagestart= 9 From SMH blog: http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/whoweare/archives/2008/03/whoweare_n ext.html Noel Pearson Background information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Pearson_%28Australian_lawyer%29 His website: http://www.capeyorkpartnerships.com/team/noelpearson/papers.htm From HSC Online: http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/english/advanced/critical_study/2471/Speech _Noel.html Aung Sung Suu Kyi Background information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi Nobel Prize information: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html From HSC Online: http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/english/advanced/critical_study/2471/Speech _Aung.html

Faith Bandler

The Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Bandler An Australian Government site offering multiple resources: http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/bandler/ A Reconciliation site: http://www.reconciliation.org.au/icms.isp?page=351

William Deane

Biography: http://www.racismnoway.com.au/classroom/factsheets/21.html Newspaper article evaluating his career: http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/ Dissenters/deane.htm Constitutional views: http://www.norepublic.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie w&id=11&Itemid=5
Anwar Sadat The Wikipedia entry on Anwar Sadat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_El_Sadat

The Official Anwar Sadat website in Arabic and English: http://www.anwarsadat.org/index.asp An American-Israeli site: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/sadat.html