Sentences with phrase «rhetorical appeals»

When given again, this performance assessment will contain the following revisions: Your summative assessment requires you to update the tragedy and demonstrate your knowledge of diction and rhetorical appeals / strategies by developing a speech from Desdemona's or Iago's point of view.

I then introduce Aristotle's basic rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos, and we watch and discuss examples of each appeal in video commercials.

Our study of rhetoric usually lasts about three weeks, from the introduction of the rhetorical appeals through the writing and revision of the analysis paper, but it can be contracted or expanded to fit different class schedules and student interest.

The audience responds as intended, pelting Richard with vegetables, completely unmoved by the canny rhetorical appeals that prove so effective to other characters in, you know, the actual play.

Also, Russell, unlike many religious folk who write on these issues, has the virtue of facing up to the implications of his position without fudging by the use of rhetorical appeals to love and the «ultimate significance» of acts of sexual intercourse.

These assertions often do not differ markedly from the kinds of theoretical and explanatory arguments prevalent in the social science literature, but they serve as rhetorical appeals aimed at shaping the way we think about our world, the ways we vote, and the policies we support.

«Yet the precautionary principle, for all its rhetorical appeal, is deeply incoherent.

WebHubTelescope The issue is not «hurt feelings», but the logical fallacy of argument by rhetorical appeal to issues other than objective scientific facts relative to stated hypotheses, and theories.

The suggestion that there is an analogy between their struggle to achieve equality and these petitioners» concerted efforts to deny women equal access to a constitutionally protected privilege may have rhetorical appeal, but it is insupportable on the record before us...» Justice Stevens also noted that Bray «presents a striking contemporary example of the kind of zealous, politically motivated, lawless conduct that led to the enactment of the Ku Klux Act in 1871 and gave it its name.»

Not exact matches

For Leff, readers «can attest to the rhetorical power of this blend,» of mixing «playful attacks against the professional and philosophical pursuits (but not the persons)» of the prosecutors, including the powerful Cato, «deadly serious emotional appeals,» and «deft maneuvering around the specific legal issues.»

Pawlenty wasted this appeal by resorting to rhetorical and policy gimmicks that made him look like both a phony and a fool.

Yet Cicero's appeal need not be read as «pure, unalloyed examples of rhetorical manipulation.»

He wrote, in New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism, «For some readers of the Bible rhetorical criticism may have an appeal lacking to other modern critical approaches, in that it comes closer to explaining what they want explained in the text: not its sources, but its powRhetorical Criticism, «For some readers of the Bible rhetorical criticism may have an appeal lacking to other modern critical approaches, in that it comes closer to explaining what they want explained in the text: not its sources, but its powrhetorical criticism may have an appeal lacking to other modern critical approaches, in that it comes closer to explaining what they want explained in the text: not its sources, but its power.»

This rhetorical stance, critics suggest, may be useful for building solidarity among the faithful, but it can also lead to an isolated mentality in which rituals of solidarity replace more effective appeals.

When Hamilton tried to justify his ambitious economic program through a liberal reading of the Constitution's «necessary and proper» clause and by appealing to the transparently rhetorical «general welfare» of the eighth section of Article I, Madison's resistance might have been predicted.

The language is highly rhetorical, abounding in questions, wordplays, paradoxes, images, and appeals to authority and experience.

«For many Americans», Cohen writes, «Romney's rhetorical insistence that he will return responsibilities to the 50 states and reduce the involvement of the federal government in the lives of the American people is what makes his presidency an appealing possibility.»

So far, however, it remains a creature of Glasman's admirable rhetorical abilities and appears limited to working - class appeal, rather than embracing middle - class interest.

In retrospect, however, the frequent appeals to science and social science over the past century were usually not much more than rhetorical gambits meant to persuade the public and to disable the opposition.

Of course, we have lives to live and have come to trust those voices that sound compelling and sensible to us on TV and in the popular media, but do keep in mind that there's a difference between rhetoric and reality and the more rhetorical and appealing it seems to one's emotions, especially as delivered by those for whom science is a kind of performance as we have today with science journalists (they are afterall selling the controversy more than the hard facts), the more likely it requires the reader or viewer or listener to examine it more closely for the precision of its language, logic and scientific interpretation.

This latest missive by FAN is quite clearly merely rhetorical flourishes based on a loose citing of references and appeals to the infallibility of Jim Hansen.

According to my rhetorical models, a flurry of appeals to ignorance might likely be forthcoming.

This rhetorical hypothesis may be corroborated by micro's interpretation of the Stadium Wave: it * would * refute AGW were it not for the fact that it's written to appeal to the establishment.

The very appeal to «climate change» is a deeply offensive equivocation and deceptive rhetorical tool.

The Court of Appeals agreed, finding that most, but not all of the statements attributed to the Plaintiff were largely true, although laced with «imaginative expression» or «rhetorical hyperbole», which it concluded were protected speech.