Using Epanorthosis in Rhetoric

Utilizing Epanorthosis in Rhetoric An interesting expression wherein a speaker revises or remarks on something the individual has quite recently said. A withdrawal (or pseudo-withdrawal) is a sort of epanorthosis. Modifier: epanorthotic.Epanorthosis is otherwise called correctio or self-remedy. The historical underpinnings is from the Greek, sorting out once more. Models and Observations Perhaps there is a brute. . . . 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 splendid and never shows signs of change, yet 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, however Im not happy with nearly everything that I do. (Paul Simon)​You dont believe were being . . . I dont need to state shabby, on the grounds that that is not the correct word, however somewhat reckless, perhaps? (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 more gro unded or progressively appropriate in its place... The utilization of this figure lies in the startling interference it provides for the current of our talk, by turning the stream in a manner of speaking back upon itself, and afterward returning it upon the inspector with intensified power and accuracy. The idea of this figure directs its articulation; it is to some degree much the same as the enclosure. What we right ought to be so articulated as to appear the quick radiation existing apart from everything else; for which reason it doesn't just require a partition from the remainder of the sentence, by a modification of the voice into an ease off volume, however a sudden discontinuance of the part promptly going before. (John Walker, A Rhetorical Grammar, 1822)​ He has recently been grinding away telling once more, as they call it, a most needless bit of insidiousness, and has caused a coolness in between me and (not a companion precisely, yet) a close colleague. (Charles Lamb, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jan. 10, 1820)​Thence have I followed it(Or it hath drawn me, rather) yet 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 exemplary 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 conniving soul separated against itself and offered more to self-misdirection than to double dealing 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 on 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 confer the main genuine delight that can be grabbed in this place that is known for shadows, this hard school of good order. (Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 1790)​ I ought to presumably have said at the beginning Im noted for having something of a comical inclination, despite the fact that I have remained quiet about myself particularly in the course of the most recent two years in any case, figuratively speaking, and its just as relatively 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)