Rhetorical Criticism Of Cross

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In applying the theories of metaphoric criticism, I will focus on two metaphors used throughout the �Cross of Gold� speech. The first use of metaphors is to convey violent acts to show the wrongfulness in changing the gold standard. Bryan refers back to fighting, contest, and war to show that the people are not going to go along with the government. Bryan speaks of �brother against brother, father against son� to show that part of the government is on the same level as the citizens and another part is above the rest. But when the citizens �clad in armor,� they will be stronger and overcome the wrath of the government. WJB refers to the office as �the plank which declares against life tenure.� What is shown here is the opposition of what is being built up by the plank in Washington. The life tenure being built is opposed, and �excludes from participation in official benefits the humbler members of society.�
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purchasing power of labor. He struck out forcefully at the conservative debate that true prosperity requires first at stable base for invested wealth, from which prosperity grows. He says that ones riches maybe another�s resource. The more privileged should not be able to destroy the less fortunate by taking what they have made and burn it to the ground. They should help them build on it and make it stronger.
So, What? The idea of the interaction view is that in the most interesting cases metaphors create similarity, rather than state some pre-existing similarity. They thus produce new knowledge by projecting the knowledge associated with the secondary subject (a kind of a source ...

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