Sentences with phrase «rhetorical effect»
The term "rhetorical effect" refers to the impact or influence that language, words, or techniques have on the listener or reader. It focuses on how certain words or techniques are used to persuade, inform, or provoke emotions, rather than just the literal meaning of the words. Full definition
Therefore I take your intention in your comment to be for rhetorical effect rather than you meaning it to be taken literally.
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For maximum rhetorical effect, combine good will with sincerity.
I had no complaint with the original Briffa articles — it was the IPCC spaghetti graph with its false rhetorical effect that bothered me.
In rhetoric, litotes is a figure of speech in which understatement is employed for rhetorical effect when an idea is expressed by a denial of its opposite, principally via double negatives.
They will suppose the word is used now chiefly for rhetorical effect, and that translation into the language of atheistic humanism will be a gain.
Ironically, by raising the specter of elitism for the sake of rhetorical effect, Tooley may actually create, or at least contribute to, the conditions for Evangelical Protestant vulnerability to the problems he denounces.
The rhetorical effect is to create the impression that the global system — the world as we know it — is undergoing a kind of crisis.
When Bultmann suggests that the modern problem can be illustrated from the «three - decker universe» he is surely indulging himself in the pleasures of rhetorical effect.
9 In many of the skyscapes of the 20th century, the sky would cease to function as a mere backdrop, but take on a central role becoming an ostensible protagonist of visual and rhetorical effects.
These are simply straw men of the crudest sort, trotted out for rhetorical effect.
The World Food Programme acknowledged that it took a point used for rhetorical effect and treated it literally.
I observed that key conclusions in Briffa and Osborn 1999 depended on the rhetorical effect of deleting the decline from their spaghetti graph.
In nearly all defences of the deletion of the decline in spaghetti graphs that yield a rhetorical effect of coherence between the Briffa and other reconstructions in the last half of the 20th century, it's been argued that the divergence problem was fully disclosed in a couple of 1998 Briffa articles and that this disclosure in the original technical literature constituted sufficient disclosure — a point that I contested long before Climategate.