Knitting Needles etc.

1. "And make thy Holy Spirit, Lord, wind quills…"
2. "Then mine apparel shall display before ye…"
3."My Conversation make to be thy Reel…"
4. "Then weave the Web thyself. The yarn is fine."

From http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/rhetoric.html

Parallelism can be employed in many different ways. One spin is inversion or chiasmus, in which parallel elements are carefully reversed for emphasis. A famous example comes from President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address (1961):

Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

Inversion often gains power by focusing attention on the ends of sentences, where readers and listeners naturally pause. Kennedy’s example shows this, as does the next example, from a 19th-century religious leader defending his honesty despite his change of religion:

I have changed in many things: in this I have not.

By putting the prepositional phrase in this at the beginning of the second clause, the speaker is able to end on that emphatic final not.
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Of the choices, #3 appears to be a sort of inversion, taking conversation, usually casual talk, and inverting it into talk that draws others to God.

If this or any other answer to your question helps you resolve this issue, please select a "best answer." This motivates people to help you and rewards their research in your behalf.

Cheers,
Bruce

3 Responses

1. poupeechic Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

   3
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2. mimi Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

   Hi,
   Number , 3.
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3. Bruce Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

   From http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/rhetoric.html

   Parallelism can be employed in many different ways. One spin is inversion or chiasmus, in which parallel elements are carefully reversed for emphasis. A famous example comes from President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address (1961):

   Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

   Inversion often gains power by focusing attention on the ends of sentences, where readers and listeners naturally pause. Kennedy’s example shows this, as does the next example, from a 19th-century religious leader defending his honesty despite his change of religion:

   I have changed in many things: in this I have not.

   By putting the prepositional phrase in this at the beginning of the second clause, the speaker is able to end on that emphatic final not.
   —-
   Of the choices, #3 appears to be a sort of inversion, taking conversation, usually casual talk, and inverting it into talk that draws others to God.

   If this or any other answer to your question helps you resolve this issue, please select a "best answer." This motivates people to help you and rewards their research in your behalf.

   Cheers,
   Bruce
   References :

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