...focus is on the rhetoric of a speech. As we know where rhetoric is concerned we should inevitably deal with literature. In other words rhetoric is like a joint which connect literature with politics and establish a method of analyzing political speeches called polio-linguistic approach. Thus we can consider political discourses as pieces of literature. Literary techniques especially rhetorical devices serve as one of the most distinctive features of the greatest and most influential speeches of all time. There is no shortage of rhetorical devices used in these speeches, but we can prioritize them by count of repetitions in political discourses. In this study first I have represented the necessity of using these types of persuasive skills in political discourses, the methods within which politicians take advantages of these skills and the different sides of a successful speech. Then after a glance through different rhetorical devices, excerpts from four of the greatest speeches in history are provided with the rhetorical devices indicated in them. Finally a quite deep examination of the most important of these rhetorical devices is presented and the conclusion is made through comparing these samples. The primary purpose of every presenter or rhetorician is to grab people`s attention. After that he/ she needs to convey people`s thoughts and beliefs in his/her to desirable direction. This is a hard job and needs a big deal of effort and commitment. In...
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...Devices and Techniques Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2009 Chapter Persuasion Through Rhetoric 5 It’s just the way things are: Images and impressions tend to sell more products than good arguments do. At least some of the images are fun. Common Devices and Techniques W hen the military uses the phrase “self-injurious behavior incidents” regarding detainees at Guantánamo Bay, it means what most of us call “attempted suicides.” In fact, when the word “detainees” is used, it means what most of us call “prisoners.” “Waterboarding” sounds at first like something you’d expect to see young people doing on a California beach, not a torture technique that involves forced simulated drowning. Less remarkable, perhaps, but possibly more relevant for most of us, we’ve heard the term “downsized” used when someone is fired or laid off. “Ethnic cleansing” covers everything from deportation to genocide. What we have to say may be important, but the words we choose to say it with can be equally important. The examples just given are cases of a certain type of linguistic coercion—an attempt to get us to adopt a particular attitude toward a subject that, if described differently, would seem less attractive to us. Words have tremendous persuasive power, or what we have called their rhetorical force or emotive meaning—their power to express and elicit images, feelings, and emotional associations. In the next few chapters, we examine some of the most common rhetorical techniques...
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...SIW Module 1 Variant 2 Theme: Stylistic Devices. Analysis of the text. 1. Point out three metaphors and three epithets used by the author to characterize the main character (Stephens) and comment on them. Three metaphors : trifle embarrassed apologetic laugh forcible ring Three epithets: thick-set and stout a round red face bullet-shaped head All these stylistic devices describe the main hero as a person who is very tired of life, he is passive, but he wants to change something in it, that is why to show us the antagonistic character of the visitor, the author uses an oxymoron “bright dark eyes”. Also we can see the despair of a stranger, because he uses “short, sharp sentences”, to emphasize it the author told us that they had “a forcible ring”. 2. Give synonyms of colloquial style to the following literary words: “to flounder”, “hazardous”, “content”, “a trifling indisposition», «errand”, “to perceive”. To flounder – to struggle Hazardous - dicey, chancy Content – pleased A trifling indisposition – reluctance Errand – trip To perceive – get, understand 3. What words and phrases are used to describe Stephens at the beginning and at the end of the story? How can the reader gather that Stephens was happy in Spain? What was it that attracted him to Spain? The narrator used epithets, metaphors, oxymoron and other SD to describe Stephens. He used such constructions as “trifle embarrassed”, “…holding it in one hand absent...
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...other than the ones pointed out in the clues. If you are not familiar with a device, use a literary dictionary to define it for yourself. Regular dictionaries will be hit-or-miss on these terms as they are highly specialized. Poetic Devices 1. couplet (Hamlet explains to his mother that his behavior is not an act, scene 2) 2. elision (Bernardo describes the movement of the stars, scene 1) 3. syncope (Horatio describes the sunrise, scene 1) 4. masculine rhyme / ending (The last two lines of Hamlet’s response to his mother’s concerns about his behavior, scene 2) 5. feminine rhyme / ending (Claudius presents the court with his appraisal of Fortinbras’ advance, scene 2) 6. diacritical accent (all over the place) Language / Rhetorical Devices 7. allusion (Hamlet contrasts himself with Hercules, scene 2) 8. antithesis (Claudius explains the death of his brother and his marriage to the widow, scene 2) 9. oxymoron (Claudius explains the death of his brother and his marriage to the widow, scene 2) 10. polysyndeton (Hamlet responds to his mother’s question regarding his grief, scene 2) EXAMPLE: (personification) “But look, the morn in russet mantle clad / Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.” (I, 1, 166-167) Horatio’s use of personification in these lines creates a vision of the slow progression of the rust-colored sun over the horizon, like a man (“clad” and “walks”) would gradually come into view as he walks over a...
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...In this satirical article published in The Onion the author is satirizing the strategies used by companies to market products to attract its susceptible customers. Using several rhetorical devices to campaign its innovative, revolutionary product: MagnaSoles shoe inserts. Using the fictional MagnaSoles as a model, the article humorously mocks the strategies used by companies to market products. Using an exaggerated or sarcastic tone throughout, it gives the read a true taste of the tactics used in today’s customary advertising. The passage quotes doctors in the field of pseudoscience and uses false scientific nonsense as an appeal to authority, it’s main rhetorical device. Together, these rhetorical devices are used together with ethos and logos to give a hyperbolized version of a modern advertisement. By using phony complex diction, such as “pseudoscience”, “kilofrankels” and “biomagnetic”, terms that retains no existence in the science world. The Onion’s writer reveals the advertisers’ outrageous front shown in paragraph six and seven. Since “pseudoscience” is a resemblance to science based on misleading assumptions, thus leaving the question would one really want to purchase something that qualifies as “fake” or a “resemblance” to the real deal. As a matter of fact, Magnasoles are insoles and not a living organism, so producing a “biomagnetic field” (a phenomenon of magnetic fields produced by living organisms; it is a subset of bioelectromagnetism.) would simply be impossible...
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...set the stage for the revolutionary action to take place; the murder of the emperor, Julius Caesar. The scheming Cassius, praising Decius, and dedicated Antony all use a labyrinthine combination of rhetorical devices and modes of persuasion to coerce their victims into their desires of either the death of Caesar or the condemnation of the conspirators....
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...In Endless Summer, Rick Bragg uses hyperbole in a plethora of ways to help achieve his purpose of how summer continues to get shorter and shorter. His first example is “I caught a million fish, and survived a million red wasps,...(Bragg)” . He uses this to display how he used to be able to fish and be outside for days on days. Now that he has become an adult, he has become bewildered on how short summer is becoming. It is not giving kids time to enjoy nature and to explore. Another example he uses is “ It was not only summer, In a time before jobs locked us in chains and girls robbed us of our sense, but it was August, the most endless month of those forever summers, and August just never ran out (Bragg).” Becoming an adult, you must get a...
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...There is a difference between dying an honorable and noble death and simply dying. It is the gap between trying and giving up and it is the sense of the unbearable pleasure that comes along with success. In Norman Mailer’s “The Death of Benny Paret”, the author witnesses a first-hand account of the tragic death of the boxer, Paret. Through many rhetorical devices, Mailer is able to have an effect on his audience, allowing them to feel the same horror. Mailer uses diction to mold the events in a biased and respectful way. Using words like “inspired” to describe the kind of shame that Paret was creating by loosing makes his failure seem less crucial. Again, the author makes euphemisms through his word choice by saying that Paret “[fought] as if he were seeking to demonstrate that he could take more punishment than any man alive”, as if losing was an admirable quality. Instead of claiming that Paret was indeed being ruthlessly beaten by Griffith, his “excuse” that Paret was purposely demonstrating a skill had a smaller impact on Paret’s publicity. Through detail, the reader is able to sympathize the gruesome fight and eventual death of Paret. Mailer mentions that Griffith hit Paret “eighteen right hands in a row” in about “three or four seconds”. These details create imagery and allow the audience to imagine Paret’s situation. When Paret died, it seemed to last forever. The details of how Paret slowly died while Griffith was still punching him greatly affects the audience in...
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...Analiysis ‘Muscle Binds’ Sport has been the object of cult for many centuries. However not everyone shares this position. The author of the article ‘Muscle binds’, Dina La Vardera, expresses her attitude to the sports activity. The article touches the problems of obsession by physical exercises. The author calls upon to remember that there are a lot of other pleasures except sport and it occasions more health and social problems than it seems. Being an expensive short-lasting fashion, exercises make people forget about everything except their beauty, even their own death does not matter anymore. They train the bodies but neglect the minds. According to the author it’s better to be a couch potato but not a self-righteous young person with rippling muscles. The title of the article reflects the contents of the article in full measure: one is bound to train not to have cellulite, one is bound to train to follow the fashion, one is bound to train to come to term with oneself, and finally, one is bound to train to be healthy. As the article is written in ironic way it is quite easy to read but the real sense is caught only by the end. It makes the reader understand that he/she is either a silly “hunk” or a lazy “potato”. The passage is written in a very chatty informal publicistic style to draw reader’s attention, to persuade them to get the author’s point of view and to entertain them. It is chosen for the target audience who consists of young people...
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...objective in reaching a final conclusion of Karla, one that is not admirable. It is difficult to imagine, from my point of view, that someone would defend Karla for the crimes she is convicted of. However, these people do exist and Rosie DiManno makes it her objective in this essay to show Karla’s true colours. She explains Karla’s actions, interprets and then criticizes them to allow the audience to realize Ms. Teale’s underlying intentions. I feel Rosie makes this point clear through her use of rhetorical questions to mock, ridicule and demonstrate Karla’s lack of sentiment. An example of this literary device is seen through the quotation “It’s Karla Leanne Teale who petitioned the warden at the Joliette Institution for escorted day passes, ostensibly designed to ease her gradually from prison to freedom before her mandatory release… Does that speak to the sentiments that might still exist in Karla’s treacherous heart?” (DiManno). I believe this use of a rhetorical question emphasizes the author’s point about how unremorseful...
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...ironies as those produced by transposing a Yankee to King Arthur’s Court). It seems clear when retracing the development of Twain’s style through his career that his use of irony—always one of his key rhetorical devices—becomes increasingly heavy- handed the older and the angrier he became. Huck’s “failure” is innocent; that of the con- gregation in “The War-Prayer” is not. Albert Bigelow Paine quotes Twain as writing on New Year’s Eve 1900-01: A GREETING FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY I bring you the stately nation named Christendom, returning, bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored, from pirate raids in Kiao-Chou, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phil- ippines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass. (Europe xxxiv) Here, only the adjective “stately” tells us that the intended tone is irony, before Twain starts hammering home his point; and it is precisely the behavior of Christendom in the Philippines that would lead, in 1904-5, to the barely disguised fury that makes “The War- Prayer”’s irony so unsubtle. Unsubtle is not the same as ineffective, of course, but insidi- ousness usually serves irony better. It was still Twain’s only appropriate rhetorical device, however, given that irony is inherently dualistic: it says or implies one thing, it means another; it has a stated (often false) meaning, and a silent (true)...
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..."essentially unlike things" are shown to have a type of resemblance or create a new image. The similarities between the objects being compared may be implied rather than directly stated. Example: "Fog comes on little cat feet" An extended metaphor is metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences. Example: "The sky steps out of her daywear/Slips into her shot-silk evening dress./An entourage of bats whirr and swing at her hem, ...She's tried on every item in her wardrobe." Onomatopoeia is a word designed to be an imitation of a sound. Example: “Bark! Bark!” went the dog as he chased the car that vroomed past. Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. Example: "Because I could not stop for Death,/He kindly stopped for me;/The carriage held but just ourselves/And Immortality." Dickinson portrays death as a carriage driver. An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which a pair of opposite or contradictory terms is used together for emphasis. Examples: Organized chaos, Same difference, A paradox is a statement or proposition which is self-contradictory, unreasonable, or illogical. Example: This statement is a lie. Hyperbole is a figure of...
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...First and last name Schoenecker CCR 094 22 September 2014 Figurative Language Examples Your interpretations should include the quote, the author, page number, and explanation of how you interpreted the figurative language. You may type your answers directly into this document. This assignment will be typed and handed in as a hard copy and submitted to the D2L Dropbox. NOTE: To save paper, please delete the examples below before you print out your assignment. Example entry: Simile – your definition. Integrated quote – As Ultima bathes Lucas in preparation for his cure, he is “like a rag doll in her hands” (Anaya 96). Your interpretation (of the figurative language): This is an example of simile because it is comparing Lucas to a limp, lifeless doll. Example entry: Metaphor - your definition Integrated quote: Anaya uses metaphor in describing Tenorio’s saloon when Ultima inquires, “Is he in his dog hole, that place he calls a saloon?”(92). Your interpretation: Anaya is comparing a dog hole with a saloon. Metaphor – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Simile – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Personification – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Hyperbole – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Foreshadowing – Your definition Integrated quote: Your interpretation: Metaphor – (No need to repeat...
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... And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; (William Shakespeare, As You Like It , 2/7) Personification is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an abstract quality, animal, or inanimate object. Examples Notice the use of personification in William Blake's poem below: Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room. "Ah, William, we're weary of weather," said the sunflowers, shining with dew. "Our traveling habits have tired us. Can you give us a room with a view?" They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took root in the carpet where the topaz tortoises run. William Blake (1757-1827) Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally. Hyperboles are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect. Examples Examples of hyperbole include: • The bag weighed a ton. • I was so hungry; I could eat a horse! • She's older than the hills. • I could sleep for a year; I was so tired. • He's filthy rich. He's got tons of money. • I've...
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...Humorous Devices Pun - "The two pianists had a good marriage. They always were in a chord." (Hyla Hope Harder - Oklahoma) A pun is the humorous word usage where a phrase is used in such a way where the words relate in the context but the meanings are different but I then forms a play on words. This is a pun due too the play on words where it says the pianist were in a marriage which they weren’t they were just close, and the way they were in chord which is a piano term. Hyperbole - "I will love you till the end of time" (Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans ) A hyperbole is a great exaggeration that greatly makes certain words have a larger significance than what they really have. This is a hyperbole due to the exaggeration of her saying till the end of time, which is impossible, because they cannot live forever. Understatement - "Cannibalism is frowned upon in most societies." (In 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, quoted by Willy Wonka) An understatement is a when someone lowers the signifigant value on something making it seem lees valuable or lowering its grade to give a different kind of impression. This is an understatement because the light intensity based on the words and the very lack of intensity that you can sense from the quote. In reality cannibalism is a very serious matter if it came up and is not only frowned upon, it is absolutely banned from the world. Oxymoron- "Sweet Serial Killer" (Serial Kiler by Lana Del ray) An oxymoron is a figure of speech by which a...
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