Distributio (dis-tri-bu’-ti-o): (1) Assigning roles among or specifying the duties of a list of people, sometimes accompanied by a conclusion. (2) Sometimes this term is simply a synonym for diaeresis or merismus, which are more general figures involving division.
We’ve-got to win the war. Pete, you get some bombs out of storage, General Caine, you drop them. Marco, you tell a bunch of lies with words like “annihilated, “totally destroyed,” and “oblivion.” I will say things like “They’re begging to negotiate,” “The weasels want peace today,” “I have negotiated a truce,” “The Iranians are giving up.”
SEVEN MOTHS LATER
What the fu*k are we going to do? We’ve-got to win the war. Pete, you get some more bombs out of storage, General Caine, you drop them. Marco, you tell a bunch of lies with words like “annihilated,” “totally destroyed,” and “oblivion.” I will say things like “They’re begging to negotiate,” “The weasels want peace today,” “I have negotiated a truce,” “The Iranians are giving up.”
ONE YEAR LATER
What the fu*k are we going to do? We’ve-got to win the war. Pete, you get some more bombs out of storage, General Caine, you drop them. Marco, you tell a bunch of lies with words like “annihilated,” “totally destroyed,” and “oblivion.” I will say things like “They’re begging to negotiate,” “The weasels want peace today,” “I have negotiated a truce,” “The Iranians are giving up.”
POSTSCRIPT
Somebody said that “repetition is the soul of truth. ‘Truth’ is always everywhere the same.” Propagandists use repetition to great effect. In the case above, the repetition can’t possibly have the ‘seeming like the truth’ effect.
Has it? Can it? Will it?
