George Duke wrote on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 12:43 AM UTC:
These are effective mnemonics, to connect many CVs with the available 600-1000
English language figures of speech and rhetoric, rather than artists or
board sizes. Betza's occasionally talking about baseball in Rules
write-up or forest scenery in ''The Game For the Trees (2002),'' are
examples of digressio. Gothic Chess' writer threatens cataplexis.
Tamerspiel's mixed-up starting array has grammatical equivalent in
cacosyntheton. Betza begins Amontillado (2001): ''Amontillado is a variety of sherry, and sherry is an augmented wine with a distinctive taste...'' That sentence exhibits anadiplosis or even gradatio as he goes on. On baseball, artist Betza begins Chatter Chess(2002), ''Hey, let's hear some more chatter out there,'' as what a coach might say. Betza adds, ''In ancient telephony and modern telecommunications, chatter refers to the tendency of an electromagnetic signal in one wire of a multiwire cable to cross over (by electromagnetic induction) and be heard on a different wire.'' The dual lively descriptions are enargia, ecphrasis or hypotyposis.