“Reason should be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason.” The author uses metaphors in the passage in order to better convey his point. The first example of a metaphor is in the first half of the sentence. He compares light to faith. This is showing that light should somehow be faith. This comparison is logical because most of us do not understand how and why lights work but we understand that we do and that is very similar to faith. The other metaphor is in the other half of the sentence. It is comparing reason with the verb undergirded. This is a very good comparison because girders are supposed to be rock solid and so is reason. Reason is based on undisputable fact while the girders holding up a building must be indisputably so that the building does not randomly fall down one day. Both of these metaphors increase the meaning of the sentence. A sentence structure technique is parallelism. This is used to make the sentence flow better causing the reader to think more deeply about the meaning of the sentence.
In the sentence, “Reason should be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason,” two examples of metaphor and a sentence level figure. The first metaphor is used to compare faith to a light by saying “illuminated by faith.” This comparison is meant to point out that a conclusion met through reasoning may be unclear or hidden, but faith will bring this conclusion to light and make it apparent. The second metaphor compares reason to a structure by stating “undergirded by reason.” In a building, a girder is a form of support. By making this comparison, the sentence points out that without reason, faith has no structure or meaning. In order to give faith a meaning or purpose it must be supported by reason. The sentence level strategy used in this sentence is chiasmus. The words faith and reason are switched between subject and object, forming the chiasmus. Although most people see faith as the death of reason, this strategy points out that reason and faith, in fact, lend themselves to each other instead.
The sentence regarding reasoning is composed of, what at first appears as a convincing, basic sentence. Further inspection shows the author’s usage of metaphors and different writing techniques to convey this simple, short sentence. The sentence itself is composed of two metaphors regarding comparisons of the words faith and reason. The author refers to reason as something that has the possibility of “under girding” faith. This specific comparison is used to show how reason itself is built up like a building and once reason is acquired, it is just as sturdy and flinching as a structure of some sort. It also proves reason’s ability to strengthen faith, it builds it up and reinforces it. The second metaphor compares faith with the idea of “illumination.” Faith itself is normally associated with negative remarks towards a person’s character, so giving it the ability to give of a positive effect is rather curious. This quote is saying that faith is just as irrefutable as the power of light, it is everywhere no matter how hard you try to stomp it out. The author also employs two obvious forms of sentence structure in this one sentence. The most obvious technique is the authors use of parallelism to combine the sentence together in a more sing-song harmony. It also makes the sentence seem to roll around in your mind after reading. The author also employs chiasmus in this sentence. The chiasmus helps the sentence seem more memorable and, surprisingly, a little bit epic. Finally, by employing these seemingly simple techniques, the author’s true purpose of persuading the reader to accept and trust his quote is accomplished. With so much technique employed in one sentence, the reader can’t help but be overwhelmed, and at the same time intrigued by the obvious, yet subtle ring to the sentence.
“Reason should be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason.” At the sentence level, the speaker employs parallelism; chiasmus, more specifically. Metaphor is another tool that the author manipulates. He does so in his metaphorical comparison between reason and a building support. Reason, the speaker implies, substantiates an ideology, while serving as its cornerstone and reinforcement. It is logical, it is coherent, it is precise, it is reasonable. At the same time, he draws on the similarities between faith and light. According to the speaker, faith is the light of reason, highlighting and accentuating it, while kindling the excitement of the listener. Reason cannot be perceived without a sense of faith. The speaker’s use of chiasmus lulls the reader into a mood of comfortableness. The reader can immediately acknowledge the sentence’s regularity associated with its parallelism. The speaker’s ability to mold the sentence shows at least a basic level of intelligence and rhetorical ability, indicating a degree of credibility. Because of this, we are instantaneously predisposed to be open to the speaker’s outlook, and inherently (possibly even subconsciously) inclined to consider it. The speaker says “faith must be undergirded by reason” to designate connotations associated with support and to demonstrate an expansive vocabulary, further establishing intellectual credibility. This metaphor, comparing a building support to reason, establishes the importance of the structure of a building, as well as the structure of his own reasoning. In this way, the supporting evidence is built into the idea itself. The other metaphor that the author uses is “Reason should be illuminated by faith” in comparing faith to light. It is a natural comparison, both having bright and usually positive implications. The metaphor appeals to the emotions, spiritual beliefs, and personal experience of the reader, brilliantly allowing, even forcing the reader to support the writer’s idea himself.
This sentence is full of tropes and sentence level strategies that support the idea that reason is logical and that light guides our faith. Metaphors, chiasmus, and parallelism are used to implement the sentence’s stance. The author brings all of these elements into a short sentence to describe such a broad topic. The argument about faith and reason can be talked about forever, but this sentence explains the whole topic in less than fifteen words. It lays the foundation for us to ponder on this extremely talked about subject. Metaphors are used in this sentence to compare reason to a building. Reason is like a building because buildings have set plans for their construction, just like reason has set principles about ideas. Everything in the construction of a building is done a certain way so that all the workers know what to do before they begin. Reason is concrete just like a building. No one will start building a structure without a layout, just like no one will start an argument without knowing the reasoning to back it up. The sentence uses another metaphor to compare faith and light. Light guides us down the right path, and faith guides us into God’s everlasting life. We do not always know what to expect down the road, but light will guide us to where we want to go. The same is true for going to heaven because we will not know exactly how to act or how to think, but we will always know that faith will guide us to everlasting life. Two easy-to-notice sentence level strategies are used in this sentence: chiasmus and parallelism. Chiasmus is used to point out that faith and reason go hand and hand with each other. Parallelism is used to give the sentence a good rhythm for the readers to enjoy. All of these strategies are used to portray the sentence's message.
The quote above aims to convince its reader that faith and reason are complementary in an optimistic, realistic worldview, contrary to what most hold true. The author compares the two parallel metaphors with a chiasmus. In employing a chiasmus, a sense of logic comes over the point being made. It is aesthetically pleasing to see two ideas balanced compared in such a way. What gives chiasmus its rhetorical advantage is that it is readily memorable. And when something is stored in your subconscious as logical, the only recollection of the idea is its validity. In expressing the complementary nature of faith and reason, reason is compared the infrastructure of a building and faith to the a light; “ reason should be illuminated be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason.” The quote conveys the idea that faith should be reinforced by sound logic, seeing as the internal support of a building has to be precise and rigid. Logic that is precise and rigid lacks fallacies. By comparing reason to faith, the quote’s thesis is interpreted as logical. Faith equated to a light that gives hope to the tempest of cynicism that accompanies concrete logic. In order to overcome chronic negativity, one must be understanding of those around you and have faith in good in all. By possessing an optimism firmly rooted in logic, disappointment can becomes infrequent, while still considering the probability of events. The parallel perspective of reason and faith is credible due to its firm logic and its memorable structure.
The trope used in the sentence is metaphor, and it is used in two ways. The first is that it compares faith to light and the second is that it compares reason to a supportive structure. The sentence level strategy is the use of a chiasmus to compare them. These are used to prove the connectedness of faith and reason and that they must exist with each other. The sentence is comparing faith to a light to show the way to truth. Faith is used to bring meaning to reason. Reason is used to provide a structure for faith and a way to support and explain faith. Reason is used to justify faith. People use reason to prove faith and faith brings a purpose to that reasoning. Also it can take meaning in the form of argumentative strategies using faith and reason to prove a point. Faith can show a form of reasoning right or wrong. For instance, Benjamin Banneker uses appeals to Jefferson’s faith to prove slavery wrong. Faith can be used to illuminate the true reasoning behind an argument and even be used to justify and prove right an argument. The faith can be used to prove a point but it must be based and justified by reason. If the reasoning behind the faith is found to be ridiculous then it can’t prove the line of reasoning you are trying to promote. It must also be used in a related way to what is trying to be proven.The chiasmus is better to compare them because it is showing the connection between the two things that the sentence is trying to point out. The Sentence is trying to show that faith and reason are connected and dependent on each other and the chiasmus connects them to each other.
“Reason should be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason” The author entails the use of metaphor and chiasmus in this quote in order to show the close knit relationship between faith and reason. The author even uses the idea of circular argument even though this would not qualify as a trope or sentence level figure. His sentence consists of using the word illuminated in the first part of the chiasmus and compares it to the word undergirded in order to show that reason is like the frame of a building. The frame of an idea or hypothesis perhaps, and is used in order to prove the idea. “Illuminated” is used as a metaphor for light. The word illuminated is connected to faith and undergirded is connected to reason. The so called building that we are using for reason needs light and this light comes from faith. The “reason” we already have, needs to also be guided by faith. The building, or reason, is a stepping stool to things we might not be able to ever understand. These things that we cannot understand can only be brought to us through faith once we get to the top of this building of reason. The light is guiding us right now as we go through our journey through reason. Reason can only take us so far. The rest is in the hands of our faith, whatever that may be. So the quote tells us that we need both of these things in our lives to reach the hidden yet ultimate truth. Reason needs faith yet faith needs reason. There are some things in this life that we can understand with reason and the rest we leave up to faith, such as God. Yet our basis of faith is held together by reason because in order for us to believe we need things like the bible to help make some sense of things and events. The human kind needs truth but yet we need faith to help guide us through our journey through the metaphorical building.
“Reason should be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason.”
ReplyDeleteThe author uses metaphors in the passage in order to better convey his point. The first example of a metaphor is in the first half of the sentence. He compares light to faith. This is showing that light should somehow be faith. This comparison is logical because most of us do not understand how and why lights work but we understand that we do and that is very similar to faith. The other metaphor is in the other half of the sentence. It is comparing reason with the verb undergirded. This is a very good comparison because girders are supposed to be rock solid and so is reason. Reason is based on undisputable fact while the girders holding up a building must be indisputably so that the building does not randomly fall down one day. Both of these metaphors increase the meaning of the sentence. A sentence structure technique is parallelism. This is used to make the sentence flow better causing the reader to think more deeply about the meaning of the sentence.
In the sentence, “Reason should be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason,” two examples of metaphor and a sentence level figure. The first metaphor is used to compare faith to a light by saying “illuminated by faith.” This comparison is meant to point out that a conclusion met through reasoning may be unclear or hidden, but faith will bring this conclusion to light and make it apparent. The second metaphor compares reason to a structure by stating “undergirded by reason.” In a building, a girder is a form of support. By making this comparison, the sentence points out that without reason, faith has no structure or meaning. In order to give faith a meaning or purpose it must be supported by reason. The sentence level strategy used in this sentence is chiasmus. The words faith and reason are switched between subject and object, forming the chiasmus. Although most people see faith as the death of reason, this strategy points out that reason and faith, in fact, lend themselves to each other instead.
ReplyDeleteThe sentence regarding reasoning is composed of, what at first appears as a convincing, basic sentence. Further inspection shows the author’s usage of metaphors and different writing techniques to convey this simple, short sentence. The sentence itself is composed of two metaphors regarding comparisons of the words faith and reason. The author refers to reason as something that has the possibility of “under girding” faith. This specific comparison is used to show how reason itself is built up like a building and once reason is acquired, it is just as sturdy and flinching as a structure of some sort. It also proves reason’s ability to strengthen faith, it builds it up and reinforces it. The second metaphor compares faith with the idea of “illumination.” Faith itself is normally associated with negative remarks towards a person’s character, so giving it the ability to give of a positive effect is rather curious. This quote is saying that faith is just as irrefutable as the power of light, it is everywhere no matter how hard you try to stomp it out.
ReplyDeleteThe author also employs two obvious forms of sentence structure in this one sentence. The most obvious technique is the authors use of parallelism to combine the sentence together in a more sing-song harmony. It also makes the sentence seem to roll around in your mind after reading. The author also employs chiasmus in this sentence. The chiasmus helps the sentence seem more memorable and, surprisingly, a little bit epic.
Finally, by employing these seemingly simple techniques, the author’s true purpose of persuading the reader to accept and trust his quote is accomplished. With so much technique employed in one sentence, the reader can’t help but be overwhelmed, and at the same time intrigued by the obvious, yet subtle ring to the sentence.
“Reason should be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason.” At the sentence level, the speaker employs parallelism; chiasmus, more specifically. Metaphor is another tool that the author manipulates. He does so in his metaphorical comparison between reason and a building support. Reason, the speaker implies, substantiates an ideology, while serving as its cornerstone and reinforcement. It is logical, it is coherent, it is precise, it is reasonable. At the same time, he draws on the similarities between faith and light. According to the speaker, faith is the light of reason, highlighting and accentuating it, while kindling the excitement of the listener. Reason cannot be perceived without a sense of faith.
ReplyDeleteThe speaker’s use of chiasmus lulls the reader into a mood of comfortableness. The reader can immediately acknowledge the sentence’s regularity associated with its parallelism. The speaker’s ability to mold the sentence shows at least a basic level of intelligence and rhetorical ability, indicating a degree of credibility. Because of this, we are instantaneously predisposed to be open to the speaker’s outlook, and inherently (possibly even subconsciously) inclined to consider it. The speaker says “faith must be undergirded by reason” to designate connotations associated with support and to demonstrate an expansive vocabulary, further establishing intellectual credibility. This metaphor, comparing a building support to reason, establishes the importance of the structure of a building, as well as the structure of his own reasoning. In this way, the supporting evidence is built into the idea itself. The other metaphor that the author uses is “Reason should be illuminated by faith” in comparing faith to light. It is a natural comparison, both having bright and usually positive implications. The metaphor appeals to the emotions, spiritual beliefs, and personal experience of the reader, brilliantly allowing, even forcing the reader to support the writer’s idea himself.
This sentence is full of tropes and sentence level strategies that support the idea that reason is logical and that light guides our faith. Metaphors, chiasmus, and parallelism are used to implement the sentence’s stance. The author brings all of these elements into a short sentence to describe such a broad topic. The argument about faith and reason can be talked about forever, but this sentence explains the whole topic in less than fifteen words. It lays the foundation for us to ponder on this extremely talked about subject.
ReplyDeleteMetaphors are used in this sentence to compare reason to a building. Reason is like a building because buildings have set plans for their construction, just like reason has set principles about ideas. Everything in the construction of a building is done a certain way so that all the workers know what to do before they begin. Reason is concrete just like a building. No one will start building a structure without a layout, just like no one will start an argument without knowing the reasoning to back it up.
The sentence uses another metaphor to compare faith and light. Light guides us down the right path, and faith guides us into God’s everlasting life. We do not always know what to expect down the road, but light will guide us to where we want to go. The same is true for going to heaven because we will not know exactly how to act or how to think, but we will always know that faith will guide us to everlasting life.
Two easy-to-notice sentence level strategies are used in this sentence: chiasmus and parallelism. Chiasmus is used to point out that faith and reason go hand and hand with each other. Parallelism is used to give the sentence a good rhythm for the readers to enjoy. All of these strategies are used to portray the sentence's message.
The quote above aims to convince its reader that faith and reason are complementary in an optimistic, realistic worldview, contrary to what most hold true. The author compares the two parallel metaphors with a chiasmus. In employing a chiasmus, a sense of logic comes over the point being made. It is aesthetically pleasing to see two ideas balanced compared in such a way. What gives chiasmus its rhetorical advantage is that it is readily memorable. And when something is stored in your subconscious as logical, the only recollection of the idea is its validity.
ReplyDeleteIn expressing the complementary nature of faith and reason, reason is compared the infrastructure of a building and faith to the a light; “ reason should be illuminated be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason.” The quote conveys the idea that faith should be reinforced by sound logic, seeing as the internal support of a building has to be precise and rigid. Logic that is precise and rigid lacks fallacies. By comparing reason to faith, the quote’s thesis is interpreted as logical. Faith equated to a light that gives hope to the tempest of cynicism that accompanies concrete logic. In order to overcome chronic negativity, one must be understanding of those around you and have faith in good in all. By possessing an optimism firmly rooted in logic, disappointment can becomes infrequent, while still considering the probability of events. The parallel perspective of reason and faith is credible due to its firm logic and its memorable structure.
The trope used in the sentence is metaphor, and it is used in two ways. The first is that it compares faith to light and the second is that it compares reason to a supportive structure. The sentence level strategy is the use of a chiasmus to compare them. These are used to prove the connectedness of faith and reason and that they must exist with each other.
ReplyDeleteThe sentence is comparing faith to a light to show the way to truth. Faith is used to bring meaning to reason. Reason is used to provide a structure for faith and a way to support and explain faith. Reason is used to justify faith. People use reason to prove faith and faith brings a purpose to that reasoning.
Also it can take meaning in the form of argumentative strategies using faith and reason to prove a point. Faith can show a form of reasoning right or wrong. For instance, Benjamin Banneker uses appeals to Jefferson’s faith to prove slavery wrong. Faith can be used to illuminate the true reasoning behind an argument and even be used to justify and prove right an argument. The faith can be used to prove a point but it must be based and justified by reason. If the reasoning behind the faith is found to be ridiculous then it can’t prove the line of reasoning you are trying to promote. It must also be used in a related way to what is trying to be proven.The chiasmus is better to compare them because it is showing the connection between the two things that the sentence is trying to point out. The Sentence is trying to show that faith and reason are connected and dependent on each other and the chiasmus connects them to each other.
“Reason should be illuminated by faith and faith must be undergirded by reason”
ReplyDeleteThe author entails the use of metaphor and chiasmus in this quote in order to show the close knit relationship between faith and reason. The author even uses the idea of circular argument even though this would not qualify as a trope or sentence level figure. His sentence consists of using the word illuminated in the first part of the chiasmus and compares it to the word undergirded in order to show that reason is like the frame of a building. The frame of an idea or hypothesis perhaps, and is used in order to prove the idea. “Illuminated” is used as a metaphor for light. The word illuminated is connected to faith and undergirded is connected to reason. The so called building that we are using for reason needs light and this light comes from faith. The “reason” we already have, needs to also be guided by faith. The building, or reason, is a stepping stool to things we might not be able to ever understand. These things that we cannot understand can only be brought to us through faith once we get to the top of this building of reason. The light is guiding us right now as we go through our journey through reason. Reason can only take us so far. The rest is in the hands of our faith, whatever that may be. So the quote tells us that we need both of these things in our lives to reach the hidden yet ultimate truth. Reason needs faith yet faith needs reason. There are some things in this life that we can understand with reason and the rest we leave up to faith, such as God. Yet our basis of faith is held together by reason because in order for us to believe we need things like the bible to help make some sense of things and events. The human kind needs truth but yet we need faith to help guide us through our journey through the metaphorical building.