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    Ratcatcher

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    relationship that she currently shares with her ‘Mutti’. Page sixteen is the Ratcatcher’s first appearance in the play‚ he materialises from Faith and the audiences imagination and his first lines are rhetorical questions “Who is not counting?”‚ “Who has forgotten their blessings?” .The rhetorical questions are intended to influence the audiences’ opinion rather than requiring an answer to the questions posed. The cross-dialogue between Helga and The Ratcatcher ensures that all of The Ratcatcher’s

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    eros

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    doesn’t have. He’s sure he’s won‚then ends up loosing because he took the risky chance of trusting something so unreliable. In both the poems about Eros by Robert Bridges and Anne Stevenson‚ two concepts of Eros are created through the use of imagery‚ rhetorical questions‚ rhyme scheme and diction. Where Robert Bridges presents Eros as both a blessing and a curse‚ while Anne Stevenson portrays a testimony of what most don’t perceive as Eros. In both poems the authors use diction to create imagery to portray

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    reader. He asks who not only made the earth‚ but made the stars in the sky. In the final line of the three sentences of parallel structure Edward asks the readers again‚ who did this. These questions turn out to be misleading for again they are rhetorical questions. In his third and final break of the poem‚ Edward Taylor regurgitates the fact that God made everything and while doing this he breaks iambic pentameter for that reason. In conclusion‚ Edward Taylor’s use of parallel structure‚ metaphors

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    Persuasive Techniques

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    |Persuasive Technique |Example |Why used (Purposes) | |Images or figurative language |‘Logging is creating smouldering‚ |If readers can visualise the problem | |Painting a word picture of a scene or |air-polluting wastelands.’ |through the writer’s words‚ they may be | |action; using similes‚ metaphors‚ |‘You can’t ban boxing. The horse has |more likely to support his or

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    to a powerful ending‚ concluding that he would rather have death than to be denied liberty. 6. A rhetorical question is a question posed to emphasize a point‚ not for the purpose of getting an answer. Henry uses this device extensively throughout his speech. Find one example in the speech‚ quote it and explain what point he is emphasizing with those particular questions. One example of a rhetorical question Henry used in his

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    Macbeth, the dagger scene

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    illusion and reality is clearly shown. Macbeth is the victim of his illusions. The ultimate questions would be to know if we can rely on our senses and if what we see is real. Those questions are at stake in this passage. Macbeth asks a lot of rhetorical questions in his soliloquy‚ the first being “Is this a dagger which I see before me‚ the handle toward my hand?” (l.32-33). He doesn’t know what to think about the dagger as shown l.35 “I have thee not‚ and yet I see thee still.” Is the dagger real

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    phrases with a similar structure - I went to the store‚ parked the car and bought a pizza. 6) Irony- what is expected and what actually occurs 7) Understatement - makes an idea less important that it really is - The hurricane disrupted traffic. 8) Rhetorical question- a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered 9) Oxymoron - a two word paradox‚ a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction - near miss‚ seriously funny 10)

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    an English poet‚ painter‚ and printmaker. Though he was considered mentally unstable or “mad” by some contemporaries of his time‚ he was later held in high regard for his expressiveness and creativity. In both of these short poems‚ Blake poses rhetorical questions to make the reader think and reflect. He uses figurative language to discuss main points and convey major themes. Blake also uses vivid imagery to paint pictures in the readers mind throughout both poems. Looking into all these parts

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    Speaking Part of the Centralised Exam" Effective Openings In order to grab the attention of the audience you may employ one of the following devices: Rhetorical questions; Interesting facts; Stories and scenarios; Problems to think about; Quotations. M. Platonova "Materials for the Speaking Part of the Centralised Exam" Rhetorical questions Is market research important for product development? Do we really need time management seminars? Interesting facts According to an article

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    The letter was written as an answer by George Orwell. His answer was to the question “whether totalitarianism‚ leader-worship‚ etc.‚ are really on the up-grade‚ given that they are not apparently growing in England and the USA.” This question and answer was asked and replied to three years before he wrote 1984. The audience for this letter is presumably the person who asked the question and maybe others who would be curious to see his answer (presuming they saw the question that was asked). The

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