Sentences with phrase «what 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.

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»?

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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

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.

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.

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