Rhetorical Terms

Rhetorical questions are used in the speech to persuade or subtly influence the audience as it’s a question used to emphasise a point or to get people thinking. An example that is found in the text is, “I watched an interview this morning and noticed that one of the questions was, do you think your children will have to go through other school shooter drills?” She uses this device to get the audience to stop and think. When she says this rhetorical question she changes the tone of her voice to show how passionate she is about gun laws. Another example for an effective rhetorical devices is shown when Emma is being extremely emotional and determined to get her impact across the audience by explaining a past experience story saying “All I can hear is mine, mine, mine, mine”.

The view of metonymy reflected in standard definitions tend to describe metonymy as ‘a figure of speech’ that consists in using the name of one thing for that of something else with which it is associated. The cognitive view of metonymy makes different

6) Homophone (homonym)- Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins,

The purpose of rhetorical question is to gain the reader’s attention so that they can start thinking about

My mother told me her story about her high school best friend turning out to be a snake.

Rhetoric is the idea of persuasion. Its basic idea is to influence someone to believe in our idea or help understand the message we are trying to deliver. In our daily life we use rhetoric in many places. This includes verbal communication as well as non-verbal communication such as body language and facial expression. In the workplace it can be used to communicate with people effectively.

A rhetorical device is a use of language that is intended to have an effect on its audience.

This paper is about the understanding of the Rhetorical Structures as they pertain to audience, purpose, and context and how they affect the argument of whether taxes should be raised on higher income brackets in order to fund social programs for at-risk and underserved, low income children. I will discuss the relationship between the audience, purpose, and context to the context of the argument.

Rhetorical questions allow the reader to ponder in what ways the question could affect them. An example of rhetorical questions is “Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it?” It is a very well know idea that parents ‘say’ they want their kids to watch less TV. However, they still give them iPods, tablets, and backseat TV’s so they can watch it whenever they want. This strategy makes the Parents questions their choices of what technology that they give to their children. Parents would rather prevent their kids from being bored than giving them to an opportunity to let their minds wander. This will eventually ruin the creativity of their young

Firstly, Rhetorical question was one of the many techniques that were used in the essay to persuade the readers, while also being the most used technique. Rhetorical questions are questions that have the answer embedded in them and often use irony. “Who is Australia’s head of state?” and “Is it the democratically-elected Prime Minister?” were also used as a rhetorical question to give the readers the same ideas as before. “Who runs the show

Idiom: A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

Lunsford and Ede consult with another book to support their claim, “Roots for a New Rhetoric” by Daniel John Fogarty which signifies the classical and modern rhetoric theories of ancient and contemporary philosophers including Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Ramus, I.A. Richard, Kenneth Burke, and S.I. Hayakawa. This book is published by New York Bureau of Publication, Teachers College, Columbia University in 1959, and its subject is rhetoric/ communication. Lunsford and Ede present Kenneth Burke’s theory from this book’s page 130 to correlate his theory with classical rhetoric. “[The new rhetoric] will need to broaden its aim until it no longer confines itself to teaching the art of formal persuasion but includes formation in every kind of symbol-using. It will need to adjust itself to the recent studies in the psychology and sociology of communication; and, finally, it will need to make considerable provision for a new kind of speaker-listener situation” (Danie 130) & (Lunsford & Ede 397-398). According to the writers, Burke suggests that new rhetoric requires to broaden its objectives which include the symbol using in every field of life, and not just limit itself to teaching the art of persuasion. The new discourse must

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Weasel words are modifying words that undermine, contradict or weaken a direct message contained in the word, phrase or clause they accompany. These commonly overused words are ambiguous, unnecessary and should be avoided.

An amphiboly is “a fallacy of syntactical ambiguity deliberately misusing implications” (Master List, p. 1).