INTRODUCTION: Poetry and Image.
PART I
The Tale.
The Images.
A Look at Parts of Speech. Nouns. Adjectives. Verbs. Direct objects. Rhetoric as Verbo-Visual Articulation
Catalogue of the Main Rhetorical Figures of Speech. Metaphor. Metonymy. Synecdoche. Anastrophe. Syndeton. Hyperbole. Onomatopoeia. Pleonasm. Ekphrasis. Ellipsis. From collage to post-production an aside on surrealism and computers. Antiphrasis. Irony. An Election Entertainment. Canvassing for Votes. The Polling. Chairing the Member.
Recognition and Resemblance for Three Voices
Metalepsis: From the Verbal to the Visual. Verbal examples. Visual examples.
Moses and the Insurance Company.
The Character Gesture.
Charakteranalyse and the Iconology of Cesare Ripa
PART II
Rhetorical Articulation Applied to Narration
The Giallo and the Noir: Two Models of Rhetorical Narration. The plot of the giallo. The plot of the noir. Two points of view.
Verbo-Visual Models of Rhetorical Figures. Seeing the ending. Closed ending. Open ending. Circular ending. Finding ideas and forms for a narrative plot. The visual, the verbal and the secret explained by Ernest Hemingway. Examples of analogy.
The Emporium of Ideas. News, preferably about vicious crime. Conversations with friends or girlfriends, preferably nasty. Television, preferably trash. Character, preferably a bad one. The visible and hidden images of a plot.
The Rhetoric of the Character. The character is introduced. The nature and the tone of the character. Dramatis persona and character. Well-rounded character. Blurred character. Linear character. Contrasted character. Static character. Dynamic character.
The Rhetoric of Conflict. Contrast and conflict in noir. Three examples of noir (visual and verbal).
The Setting as a Collection of Elements Hosting the Action. The environment and the scene. A harmonic environment. A disharmonic environment. A harmonic and disharmonic environment together. The typified scene as opposed to the typical scene. The Cliffhanger. The Frame and the Dramatis Persona. The sublime vision. The disturbing vision.
Defectiveness as a Derogation from Icastic Representation. Metonymy: beyond the name. Antonomasia: against the name. Similitude: relative greatness. Antithesis: turning against. Reticence: omission, passing over in silence. Asyndeton: no connection. Metaphor: moving beyond, outside. Preterition: going beyond. Periphrasis: going around. Prosopopoeia: personification in excess. Hypotyposis: under effigy. Synecdoche: taking together. Exclamation: enunciating out loud. Hyperbole: simply exaggerating. Apostrophe: an action and its reversal. Oxymoron: the juxtaposition of opposites.
CONCLUSION.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
