BrainPickings pieces provide a cross-disciplinary analysis of important topics such as curiosity, imagination, and truth. In each piece, Popova deliberately intertwines quotes and imagery to enhance the reading experience. Popova’s “Nietzsche on Truth, Lies, the Power and Peril of Metaphor, and How We Use Language to Reveal and Conceal Reality” is a quintessential example of this style; in it, Popova cleverly juxtaposes quotes by the French philosopher Nietzche with paintings, photographs, and drawings to highlight the anthropomorphic and deceptive nature of language. Throughout my essay, I explained the rhetorical importance of quotes and imagery in Popova’s piece; Popova uses quotes to enhance the validity of her claims and imagery to cleverly allude to instances in which language has been deceptive. Specifically, I explained how Popova includes surrealist paintings to subtly indicate that language’s distortion of truth is synonymous to surrealist’s distortion of reality, and how her inclusion of quotes at the beginning of the piece allows her to encourage the reader to continue reading her piece.
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