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    academic vocabulary and descriptive details are examples of some common strategies they put in place. Jeter used rhetorical questions and colloquial language to convey his experience about his goals and dreams and reaching them. Eventually winning Player of the Year and starting out for the Yankees in 1995 are such goals and dreams. In paragraph 2 page 61‚ Jeter uses rhetorical questions. The quote is: “What would you love to do? What are you good at?

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    Aubrey Adams Rhetorical Analysis Essay Jolynne Berrett June 29‚ 2013 Graduates Why do we attend college? Are we striving for a better career or simply trying to gain knowledge? Everyone has their reasons for attending college. Although every student has homework‚ reading assignments and studying in common‚ every student is unique. Every student has a different personality than the next and a different lifestyle. Amy Poehler‚ in her graduation speech to Harvard graduates‚ connects all students

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    Bibliography: Pearson Education Limited‚ 2005 Rhetorical question – retrieved from:

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    bonds with the patient and his family as the story develops‚ along with the use of a multitude of literary devices. Huttman expresses incredibly poignant moments throughout the narrative that stirs piteous emotions within readers with the use of rhetorical devices to substantiate the emotional moments throughout the composition. She uses tone to show us the emotional toll that Mac’s toils take on her with the quote‚ “And every night I prayed that Mac would die‚ that his agonized eyes would never again

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    uses rhetorical questions on page 129 lines 30 to 34. He asks “Who is here so base that would be a bondman?”‚ “Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?” and “Who is here so vile that will not love his country?”. Rhetorical questions are often used to put a thought into a listeners mind without that listener recognizing such a thing. In this particular case‚ the audience would not have taken the point that Brutus was attempting to get across easily‚ therefore his adding of a rhetorical question

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    art‚ either directly or by implication. 1) She was breathtakingly beautiful‚ but he knew that she was forbidden fruit. 2) She transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden. 3) His wife was his Achilles’ heel. F. Antonomasia - A rhetorical term for the substitution of a title‚ epithet‚ or descriptive phrase for a proper name (or of a personal name for a common name)

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    to hold and horrify. This alliteration emphasises his fear of death‚ which as result consumes most of his time. Correspondingly‚ Larkin writes another poem‚ Toads. Larkin uses a rhetorical question asking why should I let the toad work‚ squat on my life? Can’t I use my pitchfork and drive the brute off? This rhetorical question he asks is him complaining about the exhaustion of work. The first five stanzas in the poem show Larkin’s grey moods as it’s how Larkin feels about working. He hates that

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    semi-autobiographical recount‚ Owen criticises the suffering and psychological scarring of soldiers in ‘Mental Cases’. He depicts the aftermath and trauma experienced by soldiers through anecdotal experience. He begins the poem with a bombardment of rhetorical questions‚ ‘Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?’ to create an interrogative tone which demand an explanation regarding why the soldiers have been so tortured with misery. He further portrays their dehumanised state through religious diction

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    is writing about. The audience knows that William Safire has credentials and this creates credibility with the audience. We can only be left with the question of why and how he wants to deviate. As I go through and count‚ one by one‚ the nine rhetorical questions‚ I realize that Safire never gives the reader a chance to think for themselves. He asks‚ “What is

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    Taylor D Super English III Hour 5 8 October 2012 Rhetorical Analysis Essay -- Bianchi As a sports fan you most likely attend sporting events like‚ an OKC thunder basketball game‚ a Green Bay Packers football game‚ or maybe even a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game where beer is a choice of drink. Both women and men enjoy drinking beer and eating hot dogs at sporting events. Bianchi’s use of rhetorical questions calculated to encourage the reader’s opposition to drinking beer at sports events

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