Thus, we were given the "visual ideograph" (Edwards & Winkler, 1997), the "visual enthymeme" (Birdsell & Groarke, 1996; Finnegan, 2001; Smith, 2007), and the use of
pentadic analyses to analyze images (Rutledge, 1994).
One final point of distinction is the difference between Goffman's "framing" and Burke's (1969) use of
pentadic ratios.
There is a striking similarity between
pentadic thinking and Gestalt thinking.
The next step is to apply ratios that pair two different elements in order to examine their mutual influence and to detect the dominant
pentadic element.
In Lincoln's words about the Civil War the country was engaged in and the opposing Confederate forces, "Lincoln eschewed a harsh, dichotomizing style, and instead employed
pentadic ratios and a style that wove agents, scenes, and temporal domains together.
This process, "
pentadic redaction," repeated itself in relation to soteriological, ethical, ecclesiological, polemical, and aetological themes.
(9) The concept of a "controlling" element is related in many ways to Kenneth Burke's 1969 "
pentadic analysis model" explicated in A Rhetoric of Motives, Berkeley, CA
(9) The concept of a "controlling" element is related in many ways to the Kenneth Burke's 1969 "
pentadic analysis model" explicated in A Rhetoric of Motives, Berkeley, CA.
As a part=whole identity between the hand and the body the
pentadic segmentation of the hand is a self-referential and self-symmetrical hologramic reproduction of the
pentadic scheme of the body as a whole: four extremities and the head-body-trunk (D).
This method--which may also be used with
Pentadic analysis (see Cooks and Descumer 1993)--attempts to explore what Burke calls "the full drama of a discourse" by teasing out the associations and oppositions within a document and among related documents.
This paper explores the theory of Afrocentricity through a Burkiean analysis utilizing cluster analysis, antithesis, and
pentadic analysis.