handing in homework- a skill that makes future deadbeats very competitive in stone walling landlords and bill collectors” emphasizing on the mockery of the school systems. What rhetorical strategies does the writer use to achieve this satire? List them, and explain how each is used. Sarcasm - Sarcasm is a primary rhetorical strategy used to achieve the satire. For instance, when the author states, “Chao also suggested that schools hold more blood drives, which would prepare dropouts for visits to
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Achievement Test Name: _______________________________ Yr./sec.__________ Date_________ Score: ___ I. Directions: Choose the correct infinitives in each sentence. Encircle the answers. 1. Selfish people will not come forward —— others. A. help B. to help C. to helping D. to helped 2. My teacher came forward —— me in studies. A. help B. helping C. to help D. is helpful 3. —— in the middle of the road is dangerous. A. walk B. to walk C. to be walk D. walking 4. I like —– on violin
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become a symbol of our country. To die instead of having freedom is a very powerful notion. 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 of the many rhetorical questions in this speech is “Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation
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the matter at hand, for example, that is would be cheaper than an LRT and he also points out that many “jurisdictions” have up and running cable cars or gondolas and Hamilton is simply behind the time. Some literary proofs that the author used was rhetorical question when he states “what if proponents had simply given up on it?” It is an effective use of a literary proof because it makes the reader think about what he asks, but then he follows it up with an answer. Based on the arguments that the author
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Jack felt like Zeus as the power (simile, allusion) surged through his body, giving him infinite power. It all started as a regular day, it was raining cats and dogs (idiom). Jack was driving home from work when he saw what looked like an old woman standing in the middle of the road, and he groaned is sweet agony (oxymoron). "I want my baby, I want my baby, I want my baby" (anaphora) screamed the woman in a hellish voice. Jack shifted his car into reverse gear and the car started screeching (personification)
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Analysis Paper: Cesar Chavez is a well known civil rights leader and labor union organizer. He publishes an article that emphasizes the importance of nonviolent resistance to absorb his readers to follow the non-violence method. In the article, Chavez uses many rhetorical strategies such as personification, repetition, and alliteration to get his argument about non violence across. He uses personification in the sentence, “In this sense, time is our ally.” He gives time a human characteristic
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Daily Aztec, the SDSU school newspaper, attacks this issue by talking about the effects fake news in our world, with a specific concentration around the computer programmed algorithms that are being used to detect this fake news. This analysis will discuss the rhetorical moves made by the author, and how effective the author was at developing and delivering his argument. In the article, the bulk of the argument revolved around the discussion, is fake news good or bad for our society. It provides two
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contact and physical movement to get the audience's attention and show what they meant and where feeling they also used things like pathos, ethos and logos that helped to support their debate. In the presidential debate both candidates use rhetorical analysis such as ethos in their responses to the questions that were being asked by the audience. When being used, the candidates were attacking each others ethos. For example, when Clinton said, “when I hear something like that, I am reminded of what
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meaning behind their fronts and how the box I chose is marketed. The box I chose, “Kellogg’s Avengers: Age of Ultron Sweetened Cereal with Marshmallows”, is marketed at Meijer to children through character appeal, which displays ethos as its strongest rhetorical appeal. Throughout this paper I will show you how I came to this conclusion. The cereal aisle in Meijer is located in the middle of the center section of the store with the oatmeal, granola bars, fruit snacks, and candy across from the cereal.
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Rhetorical Context 1. The author of the article is Marcia Clemmitt. She is a Social-policy reporter. Previously the editor-in-chief of Medicine and Health and a staff writer for The Scientist. She taught high school math and physics, has a liberal arts and science degree from St. John’s College, Annapolis and a Master’s degree in English from Georgetown University. Some of her recent reports include “Digital Education” and “Computer Hacking.” 2. The author is writing to all internet users, who would
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