Samuel Mendoza Period 2 March 9th 2012 RHETORICAL DEVICES ESSAY A speech is an oral presentation on an important issue. A speech consists of three important elements: its purpose‚ the reason for its presentation; its occasion‚ the event that inspires it; and it’s the audience‚ those who hear it at the time or who read or hear it later. Orators get their audiences attention and emotions into the topic by using rhetorical devices. Rhetorical devices are special patterns of language used to make
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I Have a Dream Speech Theme: During Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech‚ there were many problems brought about concerning equality and freedom of the black population. What he wanted to get across to the people was that the United States was not abiding by its own laws and beliefs‚ so he wanted to get the theme of equality and racial justice across to his audience. This is considered his theme because this was the underlying message he wanted to get across to all those who heard
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Literary Devices used in “ How to Date a Browngirl‚ Blackgirl‚ Whitegirl‚ or Halfie” by Jason Hernandez Professor Melinda Hernandez Central Texas College English 1302 28 March 2012 Outlines I. Introduction A. Different types of literary devices being used II. Style A. How is the style used to interest the reader. III. Tone A. How is the tone used to make the story playful. IV. Language A. How does the language change throughout the story V. Conclusion
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The Japanese Empire bombarded Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941 it was a surprise attack to the United States. This event caused the loss of many innocent people as well as material destruction to the country. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president during that time‚ his duty was to address both‚ the nation and the Congress to inform them about what had happened he did this through his speech “Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation”. The speech was extremely important‚ not only because of how delicate
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A friend in need is a friend indeed is a proverb that stands true always. In our day to day work‚ we come across so many persons and all of them are not our friends. God does not create friends. We acquire them. How are friends made? Friends have some qualities in common. They are generally of the same age group. Their aptitudes and interest‚ likes and dislikes are generally common. They may live nearby‚ may go to the same school or may be doing the same work. Good friends know all about one another
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King attempted‚ and for the most part‚ succeeded in showing others that racial injustice is never acceptable under any circumstances‚ and it should stopped so that the U.S can finally be united. His inspiring and determined tone blended with rhetorical devices like anaphora and pathos allowed King to affective
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importance of it. Analogy: A comparison of two things‚ based on the similarities between them; in this case‚ telling a story with a similar sort of message in order to make a related point clear. Rhetorical Questioning: Questions that the speaker might ask‚ but which do not actually require an answer. Rhetorical questions are used to make the audience think a little more about the point being made. Appealing to the Crowd: Can be a question or a statement that seeks support in some way from the audience
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SYNTACTIC STYLISTIC DEVICES The sentence‚ as a unit of a certain level‚ is a sequence of relatively independent lexical and phrasal units (words or word combinations)‚ and what differentiates a sentence from a word is the fact that the sentence structure is changeable; it does have any constant length: it can be shortened or extended‚ complete or incomplete‚ simple‚ compound or complex. Besides‚ its constituents‚ length‚ word-order‚ as well as communicative type (assertion‚ negation‚ interrogation
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What is difference among Proverb‚ Idiom and Phrase. IDIOM An "idiom" is a phrase that has a specific meaning‚ different than you would expect based on the individual words. Idiom is more subtle. It can be informal or merely non-literal‚ and either a phrase or a complete sentence. Here are two examples of idioms that are also phrases: * brick and mortar (a traditional business‚ in contrast to e-commerce) * town and gown (when a school or university is in close proximity with a surrounding
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Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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