Essay On Rhetorical Devices

When you read a book, or a passage from any website do you ever think, “What rhetorical devices does the author use? And why? “ Well I Don’t think what rhetorical devices the author uses because why would you? The only time I would think what rhetorical devices the author is using is when I’m assigned to do it, like this project. “The design of rhetoric is to remove those opinions that lie in the way of truth, to reduce the passions to the government of reasons; to place our subject in a right light, and excite our hearers to a due considerate of it.”- Rose Mara. After this quote I read from a website I started to realize Rhetorical devices are important to anyone who are passionate about any topic because the author goal is persuading him or her toward considering a topic from a different perspective, using sentences designed to encourage or provoke a rational argument.
When the author used tone as one of his rhetorical devices I was intrigued. Like when passage said "Anything to declare? Cigarettes?..." the characters seemed very serious, and kind of just making jokes at the same time, which kind of humorous. I guess the author used to make a bit entertaining as the story goes on. When the author used imagery, as one of his rhetorical devices I was off guard because I would have never a imagery was rhetorical device. Like when the author said “intense optical stimulation” I quickly imaged a intense optical stimulation, and how I felt, I guess the author used for the reader's a mental prompt to add to the