Sentences with phrase «rhetorical devices in»

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 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.

Now, we're learning about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and how he was able to use rhetorical devices in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail.

Low - wage workers aren't Gelinas's real concern; they're just a rhetorical device in her assault on public employees.

Lincoln then engages in a prosopopoeia — a rhetorical device in which the speaker provides both sides of the argument.

Not exact matches

centeredpiece «You obviously are unschooled in the rhetorical devices common in 1st century Jewish culture.»

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.

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.

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 functionIn 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 functionin 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.

Without getting too technical (and his book «Deliverance of God» it is very technical) he basically sees an opponent of Paul speaking through a rhetorical device much like the preacher in this cartoon.

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.

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»?

«Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation or feigned ignorance) is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions.»

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.»

The connection with negative attributes (and hence its pejorative use) like demagoguery, racism, nativism and so on is a rhetorical device used by those on the other side of the argument (that would be the anti-Trump movement in the US and the «remainers» in the UK).

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:

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.

I ask students to experiment with at least three sentences in an essay by trying a different syntax pattern, rhetorical device, or possibly use punctuation for effect.

This line has increasingly become a rhetorical device that stifles thoughtful discussion about how to balance the communal, familial, and national interests in improving schooling for all children...

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.

¨ Design academic interactions that guide students in applying vocabulary, syntax and rhetorical devices they can deploy in subsequent written work

In this unit, students are required to identify the rhetorical strategies in a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen devicIn this unit, students are required to identify the rhetorical strategies in a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen devicin a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen device.

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):

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.

3) «In short, the contention that CO2 is not a pollutant is a rhetorical device and is not supported by US law or by economic theory or studies.»

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.

In short, the contention that CO2 is not a pollutant is a rhetorical device and is not supported by US law or by economic theory or studies.

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

In addition to training externs and clerks, an upper - level class in judicial opinion writing provides an opportunity for students to hone their skills in writing for a particular audience, structuring and organizing, analyzing, and using rhetorical devices introduced during the first - year writing course through a different type of document.6 Such a course can cause students to look at the legal process from a different perspective and to become better critical readers and users of opinions by writing them.7 Thus, other goals of a judicial opinion writing course can include learning about the audiences of judicial opinions and the perspective judges bring to their opinion writinIn addition to training externs and clerks, an upper - level class in judicial opinion writing provides an opportunity for students to hone their skills in writing for a particular audience, structuring and organizing, analyzing, and using rhetorical devices introduced during the first - year writing course through a different type of document.6 Such a course can cause students to look at the legal process from a different perspective and to become better critical readers and users of opinions by writing them.7 Thus, other goals of a judicial opinion writing course can include learning about the audiences of judicial opinions and the perspective judges bring to their opinion writinin judicial opinion writing provides an opportunity for students to hone their skills in writing for a particular audience, structuring and organizing, analyzing, and using rhetorical devices introduced during the first - year writing course through a different type of document.6 Such a course can cause students to look at the legal process from a different perspective and to become better critical readers and users of opinions by writing them.7 Thus, other goals of a judicial opinion writing course can include learning about the audiences of judicial opinions and the perspective judges bring to their opinion writinin writing for a particular audience, structuring and organizing, analyzing, and using rhetorical devices introduced during the first - year writing course through a different type of document.6 Such a course can cause students to look at the legal process from a different perspective and to become better critical readers and users of opinions by writing them.7 Thus, other goals of a judicial opinion writing course can include learning about the audiences of judicial opinions and the perspective judges bring to their opinion writing.

Remember, though, that elegance is not an end in itself; it must serve the overarching goal of persuasion, so sprinkle, don't pour, rhetorical devices on your writing.

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

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.»

These messages do not have to be based on any truth - their power is built on the commanding way in which they are conveyed, the rhetorical devices they use and the emotional responses they elicit.