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Lines 54–56 ("The course…outside science") contain a use of


Transcript

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All right A p laying People got another one for

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your question lines fifty four through fifty six The course

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And we'll get that contain a use of what Line

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fifty for three fifty six Let's go back in there

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and find them right there in the course of nature

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as it is as it has been and as it

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will be the object of scientific inquiry Whatever lies beyond

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above or below this is outside science Well let's think

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about this Parallel construction makes for good syntactic organization because

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it creates balance improves flow and aids digestion Yeah or

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maybe it's comprehension We're not sure Parallelism is also effective

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because people seem to like various forms of repetition The

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phrase as it is as it has been and as

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it will be is internally parallel repeating ads that while

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it invokes the past present and future What's more the

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triple word combination beyond above and below is parallel to

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the triple combination is has been and will be yet

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not content with hitting two triples The author's swings for

01:02

the fences by making the two parts of the sentence

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parallel to each other with an antithesis is in a

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right there that which concerned science and be all in

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all well it's a fine performance at that The runners

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up paradox eh is a contradiction Like everything i say

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is a lie My autonomy b is a figure of

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speech that replaces the name of a person object or

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idea with something associated with it Like all hands on

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deck or the site gets lots of clicks Hyperbole c

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is a rhetorical exaggeration or verbal overkill in rhetoric A

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tautology e is another term for redundancy or saying the

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same thing in different ways Again again again as in

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you know free gift or deja vu all over again

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Or repeating oneself unnecessarily Yeah we did that We do

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that a lot All right Anyway the answer here is 00:01:49.864 --> [endTime] the parallelism

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