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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Communication Theory Nine: Two Robert T. Craig Communication Theory as a Field May 1999 Pages 119-161 This essay reconstructs communication theory as a dialogical-dialectical field according to two principles: the constitutive model of communication as a metamodel and theory as metadiscursive practice. The essay argues that all communication theories are mutually relevant when addressed to a practical lifeworld in which “communication” is already a richly meaningful term
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In response to the flu epidemic of 1918, John M. Barry writes about scientists and their research. In, The Great Influenza, Barry’s theme is based on the idea scientist have many characteristics, one of which is the courage to deal with uncertainty. He portrays his belief by using parallel structure, metaphors, and concrete imagery. In the first paragraph, the following lines are a contradictory suggestion: “Certainty creates strength,” and “Uncertainty creates weakness.” It is the weakness that
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CA 260: Communication & Human Behavior Research Synthesis Guidelines Goal of a Research Synthesis The goal of this paper is to summarize and discuss an article presenting research from the communication science and rhetorical approaches. This assignment is designed to help you learn how to read and understand communication research from the variety of methodological approaches that communication researchers use. You should concentrate on identifying the key questions/thesis, key findings/key
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who assess alternative explanations' intuitive appeal and bear the costs and benefits of theories' predictions, will determine the success of the theory outlined in this book" (p. 355). And a theory, in their conception, consists of: the assumptions, including the definitions of variables and the logic that relates them, and the set of substantive hypotheses" (1986, p. 9). And since the hypotheses of a theory bear the brunt of empirical testing, the primary concern of the empirical testing of PAT
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Chapter 1 Question 1 | 6.25 out of 6.25 points | | Which of the following is NOT an image used to describe theories? | | | | | Selected Answer: | C. Baskets | Correct Answer: | C. Baskets | | | | | Question 2 | 0 out of 6.25 points | | The content and form of a text is usually by the communicator | | | | | Selected Answer: | C. crafted | Correct Answer: | D. all of the above | | | | | Question 3 | 6.25 out of 6.25
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