Using Epanorthosis in Rhetoric

Utilizing Epanorthosis in Rhetoric An interesting expression where a speaker rectifies or remarks on something the individual has quite recently said. A withdrawal (or pseudo-withdrawal) is a kind of epanorthosis. Modifier: epanorthotic.Epanorthosis is otherwise called correctio or self-amendment. The historical underpinnings is from the Greek, sorting out once more. Models and Observations Possibly there is a mammoth. . . . What I mean is . . . perhaps its solitary us. (Simon in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954)​With a hurl of his chest, Croker rose and came walkingor, rather, limpingtoward him. (Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full, 1998)​[A] great heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it sparkles brilliant and never shows signs of change, however keeps his course really. (Ruler Henry V in Act V, scene two of Henry V by William Shakespeare, 1600)​I dont like most of what I do. I shouldnt state I dont like it, yet Im not happy with nearly everything that I do. (Paul Simon)​You dont believe were being . . . I dont need to state unpleasant, on the grounds that that is not the correct word, yet somewhat reckless, possibly? (Owen Wilson as John Beckwith, The Wedding Crashers, 2005)​Epanorthosis, or Correction, is a figure by which we withdraw or review what we have spoken, for subbing something mor e grounded or increasingly reasonable in its place... The utilization of this figure lies in the sudden interference it provides for the current of our talk, by turning the stream so to speak back upon itself, and afterward returning it upon the evaluator with increased power and accuracy. The idea of this figure directs its elocution; it is fairly much the same as the enclosure. What we right ought to be so articulated as to appear the quick emission existing apart from everything else; for which reason it doesn't just require a division from the remainder of the sentence, by an adjustment of the voice into an ease off volume, yet a sudden discontinuance of the part promptly going before. (John Walker, A Rhetorical Grammar, 1822)​ He has of late been grinding away telling once more, as they call it, a most needless bit of fiendishness, and has caused a coolness in between me and (not a companion precisely, however) a cozy colleague. (Charles Lamb, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jan. 10, 1820)​Thence have I followed it(Or it hath drawn me, rather) however tis gone. (Ferdinand in The Tempest by William Shakespeare)​In epanorthosis, or fixing, one reconsiders what one has said and qualifies it or even takes it back, as in Augustines great Give me virtuousness and continencebut not yet (Confessions 8.7). Epanorthosis is especially uncovering of the character of the speaker, for this situation, of a dishonest soul isolated against itself and offered more to self-double dealing than to misdirection of others. (P. Christopher Smith, The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, Dialectic, Rhetoric. Northwestern Univ. Press, 1998)​They reserve a privilege to more solace than they at pr esent appreciate; and more solace may be managed them, without infringing on the delights of the rich: not currently holding back to enquire whether the rich reserve any option to restrictive joys. What do I say?encroaching! No; if an intercourse were built up between them, it would give the main genuine joy that can be grabbed in this place where there is shadows, this hard school of good control. (Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 1790)​ I ought to likely have said at the start Im noted for having something of a comical inclination, despite the fact that I have remained quiet about myself especially in the course of the most recent two years in any case, figuratively speaking, and its just as nearly as of late that I started to realizewell, er, maybe acknowledge isn't the right word, er, envision, envision that I was not by any means the only thing in her life. (Michael Palin in scene two of Monty Pythons Flying Circus, 1969)