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Employing many figures of speech, offer a thick description of a person or action or place or other subject so that it is brought to life.

The exercise of Comparison involves the juxtaposition of two subjects side by side, showing one to be better than the other (double encomium), one to be worse than the other (double invective), or one

Following the handout's instructions, attack a person for being vicious or immoral or untrustworthy some other awful thing. Use the handout's steps again and follow the final example:

Following the handout's instructions, praise a person for being virtuous or for achieving something fabulous.

Argue against some specific instance of a general (common) vice or moral fault (drinking, gambling, greed, adultery, cowardice, etc.) or condemn a type of person (not a specific person) exhib

Write a refutation of the action and the actor(s) you confirmed in the last exercise using the following steps (from p. 397-398 of the book--i deliberately left a few of them out, btw):

Select a contemporary or historical event that is hotly contested (from the newspaper or a history book) and write a confirmation of the action and the actor(s) using the following steps (from p.

Select a well-known saying from someone you admire or from another source--if you can't find one, here are a few websites: