An Attempt At A Rhetorical Ana

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examples to advance his claim. The cliché receives much of his attention. He emphases that not only does Communism rely heavily on the cliché to cloud the minds of it’s followers, but we have our own also. He says the imagination is what allows us to realize that we can not take clichés literally, but to see beyond them. He speaks of government jargon or “gobbledegook” (sic) (142), the language used to avoid the actual conveyance of information. He uses as an example, “anti-personnel bombs,” bombs that kill men, but jargon puts it into a more poetic perspective. In every example, he shows that the imagination is used to take us beyond the literal meaning of a word or phrase.
In his final talk, Frye takes more casual stance. Instead of standing at high on the podium with 20,000 people, he talks to a class of 30. Throughout the talks he speaks to, as he calls them, a “blind audience.” It seems, however, his tone shifts for his final broadcast and takes a more, and dare I say, ...

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