Sentences with phrase «rhetorical device»

It is a powerful rhetorical device perhaps, but not one that has much bearing on the question of student outcomes.

It will not do to employ the dubious rhetorical device of declaring that the other party must be wrong because I am right.

Whether this is anything more than a simple rhetorical device needs a thorough inquiry at the present time.

It is a standard rhetorical device to label one's opponents to dismiss the need to even examine their criticisms.

Judge Wald discusses the ways judges take liberties by using rhetorical devices in telling the facts; describing the standard of review; wording the rule of law, test, and holding; applying precedent; adding dicta; and choosing to write separate opinions.

Fortunately, US energy policy isn't determined by rhetorical devices like «all of the above.»

I wrote about this in How dogs bark around the rest of the world, noting the wonderful rhetorical device at the heart of matter:

Here's his inauguration speech with rhetorical devices annotated, starting from just after he's dispensed with the formalities.

Politicians are often reluctant to spell out what they mean when they use rhetorical devices such as «just about managing», «ordinary working families» and the «squeezed middle» as they do not want to be seen as excluding certain groups.

We can see this same rhetorical device deployed in his Wednesday post:

This simplification of Aristotle's rhetorical device for thesis statements can become another tool for developing young writers.

For example, my students are writing an argumentative essay about desegregation in school, articulating why that was so important, to learn about rhetorical devices.

Speaking in generalities is another polemic that's frowned upon, but let's be honest; it's an extremely effective rhetorical device — especially for people trapped within in a broken system.

In school, all the grand old masters of literature are brought out for the children to study and to struggle with, with those dorky Questions for Class Discussion: What rhetorical device does the writer employ when he refers to «poems they tape to the refrigerator door»?

It doesn't prove the incompatibility of the attributes; it merely proves that one has to utilize nonsensical rhetorical devices to justify disbelief in God.

But I would caution readers to take note of the weak rhetorical devices used to make it sound like these quotes reflect daily life at Amazon or the majority viewpoint about working there.»

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

Paralipsis is a powerful rhetorical device because it can also allow someone to make a false accusation — or spread a false rumor — while skirting consequences.

I think its really easy for these types of manipulative rhetorical devices to creep into our thoughts and speech without us really realizing them.

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

Buried in Republican House candidate Mark Rosen's email about his support for term limits on the federal level is this interesting rhetorical device regarding Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey:

Rachael Hi, I would argue the very idea that health is for «the old» and not of interest to the «young» is a constructed rhetorical device - a false choice if you like.

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.

Brian Wiltshire, an Advanced Placement English teacher at Roosevelt, said he starts the school year teaching Plato's «Allegory of the Cave,» discussing rhetorical devices, what's real and what's not, and how education shapes your perspective.

It's sad that he has latched on to the lazy rhetorical device of creating a strawman called «education reformers» — as if everyone in the education community seeking reform are all in agreement — and then having the «reformers» strawman say ridiculous things so the he can «debunk» them.

In a world in which money so obviously rules, your presentation of the idea that «Big OIL» and «Exxon and company can't do diddley squat...» looks like a careless rhetorical device borne of arrogance, ideological bias and selfishness.

I would say that it is ironic (given that it is a lie that Mark Twain said it), but it isn't irony, as irony is THE most misunderstood rhetorical device!

Legal writing can benefit from several rhetorical devices, including imagery, figures of speech, word choice, rhythm, and literary allusion.

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.

Jami Gold shows how to strengthen your writing with rhetorical devices, Melissa Donovan improves writing through poetry, Janice Hardy lists 3 easy edits for better -LSB-...]

Fragments of quotations from Greek authors and adaptations of conventional Greek rhetorical devices and literary forms by the authors of some New Testament writings, notably the Acts of the Apostles, testify to this.

Dr. Kinsella details cross-curricular writing instruction imperatives for educators serving English learners and striving readers, including a focused yet accessible analytic rubric for each assignment, targeted lessons on language and rhetorical devices for specific writing types, explicit analysis of an appropriate writing model, and brief, frequent doses of interactive, teacher - meditated writing practice to build critical competencies for longer, independent assignments.

And sure her speech was well written and peppered with classic, effective rhetorical devices.

Yes, the SBC formally apologized for its racist origins in 1995, but I wonder how many Southern Baptists have taken the time to really study the sermons and speeches of their predecessors to learn what rhetorical devices and hermeneutical approaches were employed to make so many Christian people so comfortable with that oppression that they formed an entire denomination around it.

You said, «You can try to limit God's omnipotence by postulating innumerable scenarios, -LSB-...] it merely proves that one has to utilize nonsensical rhetorical devices to justify disbelief in God.»