"“It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man’s will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”", [Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind]

This has come up so often in class I could not pass up using this quote. This a very verb style way of writing and it humanizes words but shows you their infinite strength as well. Especially in places where words wring. Also a form of tacit persuasion as well as verb style with distinct and vivid action imagery. Even sentences have the power to evoke love or break a person. He also uses a periodic style which makes you pay attention to the words he is using and by making the whole paragraph periodic you pay attention and almost feel the strength of the words.

Patrick is using telescoping by zooming in on the topic of words within the field of names. He makes sure to spend an entire paragraph on the power of words in the course of an entire conversation about becoming a namer; knowing the secret name of objects like the secret name of fire or of stone, and once you know the name you can control it. This is very much like writing and style choices, once you know and understand the nature of a technique you can control it and use it effectively in your own writing.