or provoke in order to gain the audience's attention, to make people want to listen, to feel relaxed and even to introduce the subject. A good technique is to try to get your audience involved in your presentation either by asking direct or rhetorical questions. Ask for a show of hands for example, in response to a question or, present information in such a way that the audience can identify with it. You can give an anecdote, unusual or surprising facts, or an illustration from real life.
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Figures of Speech (Stylistic Devices) What are stylistic devices? In literature and writing, a figure of speech (also called stylistic device or rhetorical device) is the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling. Sometimes a word diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase has a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it. Examples are metaphor, simile, or personification. Stylistic devices often provide emphasis, freshness
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not having a strong support to her evidence, losing that confidence by asking rhetorical questions, and not taking advantage of her resources. A reason why her argument was not that effective was because instead of making her argument strong she weakened it by asking rhetorical questions. Those questions in which she did not have the answers to it. Or let alone her answers to it weren’t well supported. Once the rhetorical question have been asked the reader should not have to stop and try to think
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APPENDIX: REPORT Dear Professor Miller, What follows is the report you requested on a possible speaker for the event that EU Business School will be hosting. After viewing various speakers’ presentations I have decided to analyze Noreena Hertz’s talk, “How to use Experts” in more depth. The purpose of this report is to demonstrate why Noreena Hertz is the right candidate to talk at the event. In my opinion Noreena Hertz is a very good speaker. This can be shown by analyzing her Ted Talk in
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Figurative Language The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, has quite a bit of figurative language, which contributes to its popularity. Examples include figures of speech, symbolism, allusions, imagery, similes, metaphors, personification and hyperboles. These elements are of my group’s interest. The first figurative language example I’d like to explain is the figure of speech. Lee uses many figures of speech throughout the book. One example which captured my interest was on when Atticus
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One rhetorical device Catt employs is syntax by using a compound sentence type. Furthermore, Catt creates a sentimental tone through detailing the hardships numerous women faced throughout generations. In addition, Catt employs parallelism in various sentences
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Comprehension Q1. Why, according to Rhode, are looks "the last bastion of acceptable bigotry? A1. According to Rhode, looks are not the last bastion of acceptable bigotry. Q2. Why does the government allow organizations to engage in appearance discrimination? A2. The government allows organizations to engage in appearance discrimination to indulge their own prejudices. Q3. What forms of discrimination do unattractive people face? A3. Unattractive people are less likely to be hired
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When I was looking for public service ad to analysis, I saw a poster that is magical and very interestingly propagandist. This poster seemed similar to World War II Soviet Union and Nazis propaganda posters. It has very distinct style and very mind boggling title that you never going to understand, unless you make some research on it. After seeing the poster, I felt that I had to know the meaning behind this puzzling design, and most importantly the message of the poster and the reasons why the author
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Rhetorical Analysis on an advertisement Smoking tobacco has been around for thousands of years starting with our ancestors. During the 1920s the first medical report proved that smoking causes many health risks. A series of major medical tests had proved that tobacco caused MANY diseases. (cancer council) Once that was realized many people started creating anti-smoking ads', commercials, newspaper entries, etc. The main key to these type of influential advertisements is how to the author/artist
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campaigns. Slogans like “All the way with L.B.J.” for Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign, “This time vote like your whole world depended on it” for Richard Nixon’s campaign, and “Stronger together” for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. These are all examples of a rhetorical artifact that fits within a political-slogan-type genre. For my second paper, I will be analyzing Barack Obama’s slogan from his 2008 campaign. His slogan is as follows: “Change We Can Believe In” (Obama 2008). I believe this slogan follows the
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