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Comparing Dubner And Levitt's Freakonomics

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Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt in a passage from the book, Freakonomics, published in 2005, addresses the topic of incentives, and that people will do anything they possibly can to get what they desire. The authors support their claim through the use of diction, first by enumeratio, where the authors include details of a real life incident to influence the reader that their opinion is true; secondly by hyperbole, where the authors exaggerate a point to make their views more agreeable; and thirdly by epizeuxis, where the authors repeat the word ‘incentive’ to emphasize their point. The authors’ overall purpose is to influence the reader that people will do whatever they can to get what they want. Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt create

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