[New-Poetry] Anyone know this?

[TheOldMole]

Yeah, I was counting on Sam.

Rsgwynn1 at cs.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/4/2007 3:51:08 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> anny.ballardini at tin.it writes:
>> funny that they do not mention refutatio here:
>>  
>> http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
>> http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm
>>  
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
>
> It's not a figure (scheme or trope) but part of the speech/discourse.  
> In a debate, of course, the objections would be voiced by the other 
> side and answered, but in a discourse the /unvoiced/ objections are 
> addressed.
>
> There is, as far as I know, no figure for this, for figures have to do 
> with matters like syntax, repetition, omission, and various forms of 
> metaphor.  A rhetorical question comes closest:  "Why am I wasting 
> your time when it's clear that you don't want to buy Product X?  Well, 
> I'll tell you . . . ."
>
> Some of these seem to fit the bill, or various bills:
>
> http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/Groupings/of%20Refutation.htm
>
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