Rhetorical techniques

these soldiers is that by swaying the verdict on the basis of patriotism over devotion to the law itself, colonists stoop to the same level as the British, whom they have condemned as tyrants. Adams used ethos, pathos, alliteration, epizeuxis, and rhetorical questioning in his closing argument to effectively convince the jury to recognize that the soldiers were acting in self-defense and to defend not only the law, but also his morals as a colonial lawyer. In the opening paragraph of his speech, Adams

the recommended solutions of landmines terrible problem. Diana’s speech encompass a wide collection of linguistic and stylistic devices that definitely support her message to the audience. The use of facts, statistical evidences, call to actions, rhetorical devices, definite themes, and repetition of phrases are all included in this speech about the problem of landmines, which makes it very rich and strong in view of delivering the right awareness in the right way and engaging the audience and readers

Analysis of Rhetorical Devices Not only does Le Guin apply rhetorical appeals in her speech, but she also incorporates a multitude of rhetorical devices, such as sententia and antithesis. Le Guin utilizes sententia when she states, “Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure” (Le Guin line 30). Le Guin attempts to tear down separation by gender and bring people together on common ground by concluding that males and females are both bound to face failure because everyone

The Dare by Roger Hoffman is a short story that conveys feelings and emotions of a seventh grade boy who had undertaken an extremely risky adventure. The essay is written by the author in his adulthood, but, nevertheless, he still manages to create this essay as if he is still in his childhood. Hoffman uses stylistic devices like metaphor, imagery, simile, and personification to create meaning in the short story, The Dare. This story is a about a boy named Roger who was intelligent and got A’s

many rhetorical devices throughout the speech to clarify his message. The message Kennedy is trying to get across is that people should unite together and become peaceful with one another and other nations. In the speech, Kennedy uses the rhetorical devices alliteration, anaphora, allusion, and antithesis. The use of these rhetorical devices helps to awaken the audience to let them know that we can all get along with each other, without fighting with each other. Kennedy used the rhetorical device

it. In Will McAvoy’s speech on “The Newsroom”, McAvoy uses a variety of rhetorical devices such as Anthypophora, Asyndeton, and Dysphemism to convey the message that America is not the greatest

2.1 Metaphor Metaphor is one of the most commonly used and important stylistic devices. It is defined by McRae (1998/2003:140) as ‘a word or phrase which establishes a comparison or analogy between one object or idea and another’. In other words, if one finds that certain features or characteristics of two otherwise completely different and unrelated objects are similar in some way, a metaphor can be created (Galperin, 1977:140). These are not comparisons like similes, however, as metaphors are

“My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they’re like it’s better than yours, damn right it’s better than yours, I can teach you but I have to charge” (Williams & Hugo, 2003). Released on August 25, 2003, “Milkshake” is a song by American recording artist Kelis and the lead song from her third album Tasty (Williams & Hugo, 2003). In a Q&A by The Associated Press with Kelis, the singer noted that, in the song, “milkshake” is used as a metaphor for something that makes women special and unique

James Veitch’s presentation on suspicious emails was powerfully engaging because of his effective use of images, sound effects, and body language to capture the attention of the audience. Using these various modes, James delivered a motivational presentation by telling a story about his experience with email spams. The intent of his presentation was to show what happens when you reply to suspicious emails, rather than delete them. Firstly, he effectively addressed himself as a confident speaker by

A Rhetorical Website Analysis of the MacDonald Funeral Home Website The MacDonald funeral home website provides the viewer with many different rhetorical devices in their text, images, color psychology, as well as shapes to utilize logos, pathos, and ethos to help appeal to the users that access this website. This website provides funeral services as well as cremation services for people's loved ones. They provide low prices and care to the services in which they provide. I have chosen the