The Man with the Muckrake: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
The Man with the Muckrake: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
The Muckrake and the Celestial Crown
You probably figured this one would feature. Nothing jumps up and down and screams "Hey! I'm a Symbol!" like the phrase "celestial crown."This allusion to Pilgrim's Progress is Teddy Roosevelt's bi...
Aristides the Just
Early on in the speech, TR drops this reference: If Aristides is praised overmuch as just, people get tired of hearing it; and overcensure of the unjust finally and from similar reasons results in...
"[T]hey had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind…"
Remember the old phrase "you reap what you sow"? Teddy sure does, and he drops this phrase: But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind,...