Entry #1: Rhetorical Strategies

• Simile - "In the dark it was like summer lightning, but the nights were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm coming" (3).
• Periodic Sentence - "The telescope that fitted it was, I remembered, locked in the trunk" (11).
• Metaphor - "The drops fell very slowly, as they fall from an icicle after the sun has gone" (61).
• Epistrophe - "You do not mind it. You do not see it." (70).
• Repetition - "Please, please, please, dear God, don't let her die. Dear God, don't let her die. Please, please, please don't let her die. God please maker her not die (330).

The usage of rhetorical strategies gives Hemingway a unique style in many ways. The author's use of periodic sentences, which do not often occur naturally, makes Henry seem mentally scattered, as if he has multiple things on his mind and he's trying to state something without giving it much thought. Unlike periodic sentences, the usage of repetition, especially when Henry is praying and pleading to God to save his wife Catherine, creates a powerful effect, and in the case of Henry praying, shows the reader how deeply Henry loves his wife and enables the reader to feel the emotion Henry felt during this extremely difficult time. In addition to repetition creating a powerful effect, the usage of epistrophe also does, by making the speaker seem more sophisticated and causes what he is saying to sound more sophisticated and wise.