Sentences with phrase «as rhetorical devices»

I don't think so, I think that they are criteria that were hand - picked to serve as rhetorical devices in service of confirming a bias.

Richard Haden carves hyper - realistic objects out of wood choosing everyday objects as rhetorical devices.

In most of the sermons I hear, questions are used in the sermon as rhetorical devices to win the attention of the congregation, but when carefully focused, placed, and delivered, non-rhetorical (that is, real) questions can perform social functions.

When you consciously use silence as a rhetorical device, you'll come across as more self - confident, your message will be more impactful, and your audience will remember more of what you say

His point isn't even about salt, he is just using it as a rhetorical device

One consequence of Lear's conception of irony is that its paradigmatic case is not as a rhetorical device deployed by someone with superior knowledge in order to block the access, or mock the misunderstanding, of someone without it.

Whatever Mr Cameron's views on tax, you are a little bit harsh on Professor Laffer's theory, I think, which is far simpler and more eloquent than it is normally presented (including by the 1980s true believers, who largely hijacked it as a rhetorical device to justify tax cuts).

Science matters little in this other than as a rhetorical device to advance cultural ambitions.

Not exact matches

Secondly, this focus on the middle class isn't an empty rhetorical device but a governing principle for the party as it renews itself.

Berry's «Boomers and Stickers,» he points out, is a nice rhetorical device, but break down as categorical tools....

So the theme of the «great surprise,» far from a rhetorical device as Stendahl terms it (7:794), is in fact the point of the passage: the righteous are commended precisely because they acted humanely without knowledge of Jesus» presence and therefore without the calculating attitude Matthew attributes to the Pharisees.

But equally it can be dangerous to employ a rhetorical device without putting any flesh on the bones, as was demonstrated in 2010 by Ed Miliband's toe - curling interview with John Humphreys.

Unlike other documentaries, Wiseman's work does not progress chronologically; rather, the segments are arranged thematically, like an essay, and are linked via rhetorical devices such as comparison and contrast to create a patterned structure.

The debate on balancing as a moral and legal approach are numerous, but two main questions that are always requestioned and re-examined are first juridical - philosophical question that refers on the nature of balancing, whether it is a rational procedure for applying norms or a mere rhetorical device.

The teacher would provide clear expectations for student - produced lab reports that are also evident in the text, and would also point out rhetorical devices such as verb tense, use of headings, and organization, which are specific to one type of writing in science.

Students analyze persuasive arguments on subjects ranging from environmental conservation to legal decisions involving the First Amendment as they learn to identify elements of argument and to use rhetorical devices.

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Genre authors often choose clarity over figurative language that might be a confusing speed bump to readers, but some rhetorical devices help with that issue while also strengthening our voice, slipping in more information (without an info dump), and / or adding sensory information (such as with onomatopoeia words):

528 processor... BOOO!!!!! And Blackberry users... really... business use on T - mobile or do you really like them as a personal device (rhetorical).

In this case, the technique wasn't employed as a weak rhetorical device, but rather as a necessarily informative one, which I will recreate here: a skeuomorph is an «Object or feature that imitates the design of a similar artifact made from another material,» according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

I'm all ears for arguments that claim to have the best, most reliable or valid approach to problems, but the achievement of objectivity tends to be a rhetorical device, often used in opposition to what are declared as non - objective / non-scientific arguments, rather than something which can be defended on epistemic grounds.

«Rhetorical devices to evoke fear and other emotions, such as implying that the public is under threat from deceitful scientists, are common tactics employed by science - denier groups,» the authors wrote.

It isn't assumed as other than a rhetorical device and can be argued for and against.

Garner, for example, notes that Holmes's opinions effectively used «rhetorical devices such as alliteration, metaphor, and periodic sentences to emphasize his points.»

Scholars of the discipline expanded from dissecting the practice of teaching legal writing and began to focus on law as rhetoric.11 Progressively, the teaching of legal argument had led to curiosity about rhetorical devices and narrative techniques.12 The importance of plain or accessible language became a key component of effective communication.13 The intersection of legal writing and storytelling emerged as an important area of the scholarly discourse.14 The discipline's character developed and created new and emerging sub-characters within the story.

It includes areas such as understanding visual rhetoric as a part of writing, 15 examining contracts and other documents from a narrative perspective, 16 applying cognitive science17 and neuroscience18 to explain what happens when readers interpret legal writing, understanding how bias impacts writing, 19 and appreciating how rhetorical devices in writing impact the reader's understanding of concepts and, ultimately, the law.20

I do the same thing when I hear «verbiage» used as a synonym for «wording,» or the rhetorical device «begging the question» uttered in place of «raising the question.»