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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Marian Lewes 'Letter' By George Eliot
Within the past years more and more people choose to be writers and nowadays nobody is perfect and everybody need help.
In this letter Marian lewes (who used the pen name George Eliot) is responding back to a struggling writer. Lewes uses a lot of rhetorical strategies to respond back. Instead of speaking on a higher educated tone lewes put herself on the same level or in the same position of in which to address the woman. Lewes tone in the letter is sympathetic in which to inform the lady that what she is going through is normal and other people go through it to. First lewes uses syntax to help with her experiences and her beliefs on the development process of pierce. Lewes also give pierce the impression that to be a writer don’t always

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