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    The song starts out with a strang questioning of reality: “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide‚ No escape from reality‚ Open your eyes‚ look up to the skies and see”. They first two lines are rhetorical questions. They help establish the state of mind needed in order to continue with the song. The third line is a metaphor. It means everything is crashing down on him‚ and he cannot escape it. It seems to conclude that he is caught between a dream

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    • Write a minimum 500-word response to the following questions: · What are some examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and specific rhetorical devices in the speech? · How did the speaker address arguments and counter arguments? · Were the speaker’s arguments effective? Explain your answer. This speech was done before election time of the new governor. This video had many examples of fallacies. “Using emotion the wrong way most often creates what is known as a fallacy. Fallacies

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    examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and specific rhetorical devices in the speech? In the speech kane uses a variety of bias which include political bias in which he is doing against Jim W. Gettys. He also uses different types of fallacies which are scapegoating‚ and apple polishing‚and ad hominen ‚ and using straw man fallacies and he also two others ones false dilemma and slippery slope plus begging the question too . He also uses a few different types of rhetorical devices in his speech ‚ which include the

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    that same paragraph she also used slippery slope. She mentioned that if woman are free from violence and have equal opportunities‚ this will cause a chain of events that leads to the rest of the nation flourishing as well because of this. One rhetorical device that Mrs. Clinton used was when she used a metaphor‚ “These abuses have continued because‚ for too long‚ the history of women has been a history of silence”. She is comparing how our history as woman has been a history of other people trying

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    that are interested in the security of the nation to read their works‚ and for them to learn new things in regard to current nuclear threat events. In short‚ authors use features to make their genre unique such as structure‚ word choice‚ and rhetorical devices because it allows

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    The Declaration of Independence Rhetorical Analysis Christian Johnson / P6   PART I The Declaration of Independence is considered by many to be the finest piece of political prose ever written.  It can be seen as a document in five parts:  the introduction‚ the preamble‚ the denunciation of George III‚ the denunciation of the British people‚ and the conclusion.  We are going to closely examine the first three as a way to understand how Jefferson’s rhetorical strategies serves the political

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    Context: This passage is occurs right in the middle of the first chapter of the book Black And White By Eric Walters. It is in first person point of view coming from Thomas’s point of view. There is no previous chapter however‚ the introduction to this novel simply Steven‚ the best friend of Thomas‚ convincing him to stay and watch. The chapter after‚ however‚ revolves around the ride back home following the basketball match. Significance: There a couple of significant points in this paragraph in

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    of going to the Senate because she fears that Caesar’s life is in jeopardy. Decius‚ in this case Calpurnia’s adversary‚ wants to persuade Caesar that he should in fact go to the Senate where his doomed fate awaits him. Shakespeare uses many rhetorical devices in Calpurnia’s conversation and Decius’ conversation with Caesar‚ each attempting to convince Caesar to take their side. The first to try and persuade Caesar is Calphurnia‚ his wife; she begins her argument to keep Caesar home by attempting

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    “They don’t even know it’s Christmas” sung and performed by the members of band aid in 1984’s is about third world countries suffering from famine and continually dying‚ and the people in those counties not even knowing or caring that it is Christmas and that the greatest gift to them is life. During the song the singers used and sung lyrics such as “And there won’t be any snow in Africa‚ the greatest gift they’ll get this year is life” and “Where nothing ever grows‚ no rain or river flows”. These

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    food‚ to the language‚ to the types of clothes people wore. He wrote this section to inform the people back home about how different Europe was from New York and‚ possibly‚ to gloat about his world travels. In the first paragraph Bryson uses the rhetorical technique of hyperbole while describing his backpack. He says‚ “I half expected to be asked‚ "Anything to declare? Cigarettes? Alcohol? Dead horse?" Bryson is implying that his backpack is so massive that he could fit a dead horse in it. This‚ of

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