Rhetorical techniques

Before english I had no idea what rhetorical devices were but I would doing them without knowing what I was doing. I not only think it was the most significant subject learning but it was the most helpful because now I could categorize what thoughts go where. Logos is logic, it proof and reason…

Each author has different diction and syntax that makes their work unique. Authors use different stylistic tools for different reasons throughout their story. Different stylistic tools have different effects and do certain things to the story. In American Wife by Taya Kyle, Taya uses figurative language to get a point across to her reader, make her writing more interesting, and allow her readers to better visualize what she is talking about. To begin, Taya uses figurative language throughout…

speaking up about sexual harassment and emphasizing the need for change.Throughout the speech she talks about many different things from personal stories to the plights of everyday women to show that this abuse affects everyone. She uses many important rhetorical devices, namely pathos, syntax, and diction, to draw attention to this fact as well as others. Ultimately, Oprah delivers a powerful speech that resonates in the hearts of her audience members and creates a desire for change. Oprah…

remarkable speeches ever. This speech had an exceptional flow that was caused by the amazing style that MLK used. MLK used various types of rhetorical devices, such as metaphors which he used nearly twenty times, anaphora which he used eight times, and many other rhetorical devices like parallel structure, doublets and triplets, and antithesis. These rhetorical devices made MLK’s speech one of the best speeches in our history, and created in it a style which…

In “Superman and Me” Alexie begins by telling a short story about his childhood where he lived on an Indian reservation. He presents us with a few tales about how as a kid he was always interested in books and he compared paragraphs to fences as well as his siblings. Alexie viewed everything in his young life as pieces of paragraphs which made up the entire story of his life. Subsequently he transitions into the next part of the story where he presents us with the idea that an indian who views…

Before Ifemelu leaves for America, she shares her weekends with Obinze in Nsukka. Here, Adichie describes Nsukka in a long paragraph for this is the last time we are in Nigeria until the end of the novel. Each sentence reveals more about the town, but I will mostly examine the figurative language that is used at the end of the passage. Page 113 reads, “The church bazaars would leave the air redolent, smoky from mass cooking. Some nights, the heat lay thick like a towel. Other nights, a sharp…

speeches use rhetorical devices in order to persuade their audience. M.L.K’s speech discusses his own perception of how different the whole movement of African American discrimination would have been if he would have “sneezed” and been injured in the incident he was in. Similarly, Clinton’s speech expounds his considerable opinion on what M.L.K would have to say on the actions society has been choosing to take. Clinton expresses…

According to Shakespeare, "Words are easy like the wind", that is unless you're reading Shakespeare then you would think you are standing in the eye of a hurricane. To most scholars Shakespeare's writing may be perplexing; Michael Mack has allowed us to see the beauty after the storm, that is the beauty after reading Shakespeare. Michael Mack was a English college professor, but as a Shakespeare scholar, he was hardly objective; on September of 2008 he met before a class of college freshmen to…

across a strong message of perseverance, and unity. Furthermore, the speech “I Have a Dream” portrays an excellent use of a variety of rhetorical devices which truly affects the readers and the listeners emotionally, and spiritually. Some of these rhetorical devices include Simile, Hyperbole and Personification. Firstly, in the speech “I Have a Dream” the use of rhetorical devices…

their audience, many do so by using rhetorical strategies. A rhetorical device is a way to convey meaning or to persuade. Rhetorical strategies are found in every piece of writing but we generally do not realize it. In the speeches by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, they use rhetorical strategies to convey their messages. In Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried, rhetorical devices are found throughout his writing. Between these three different texts, rhetorical devices such as similes,…