Sentences with phrase «with rhetorical devices»

A new study finds that the literature on dog bites written by human health care professionals is rife with distortions and errors, and laden with rhetorical devices that mischaracterize dog behavior and grossly overstate the actual risk of dog bite injuri...

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

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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.

Assassins of Memory by Pierre Vidal - Naquet, a French classicist, contains shrewd and learned dissections of the denial literature, with special attention to its rhetorical devices and deceptions.

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»?

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).

The president's speech was overladen with all of the rhetorical devices that I advised him to use.

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.

And ambivalence is a major political resource and a rhetorical device that has to be deployed with enormous care.

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.

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):

Strong language — like all rhetorical devices — loses strength with repeated use,» Proctor said.