SOPHS:RHETORIC TEST Extra Credit--"People will come, Ray"

Ray owns a magical cornfield that he's in danger of losing to the bank who owns the mortgage. Famous dead baseball players come to play baseball on his field, but only he and his family can see them (until the end of the movie). Everyone thinks he's crazy, but at :17 into this video James Earl Jones (who plays a famous reclusive writer) convinces him NOT to sell his farmland so that the old dead ballplayers can come to play games. He repeats," People will come, Ray." This repetition of a line is known as a REFRAIN.

Watch this speech from the movie, Field of Dreams. There will be some extra credit on the test that asks you to identify some of the rhetorical tropes and schemes from the speech.The speech is below the video.

"People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come, Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.”