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    Edgar‚ Gloucester’s legitimate son‚ will inherit all of his father’s land. By presenting the rage of Edmund Shakespeare carefully takes advantage of effective rhetorical devices in order to promote Edmund’s argument and further his stance on the issue. In this passage Shakespeare makes tactful use of repetition‚ and ponders multiple rhetorical questions in order to capture the extent of Edmund’s beliefs of jealousy and revenge. By constantly restating and repeating the words “bastard” and “legitimate”

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    Rhetorical Analysis Written in a way that can only be described as thought-provoking‚ throughout his biography “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave” Douglass utilizes a variety of rhetorical techniques and devices‚ among which are ethos‚ pathos‚ and comical irony. Douglass takes his experience as a child to persuade people of the horrors of

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    the evil or the blessing will reach you all. Rhetorical devices: Special patterns of words and ideas that create emphasis and stir the audiences emotions‚ usually found in persuasive discourse Parallelism - the repetition of phrases or sentances that are similar in structure or meaning for rhetorical effect Examples: - "we have petitioned‚ we have remonstrated‚ we have supplication..." -the beatitudes -Martin Luther king Rhetorical question: asking a question with an obvious answer

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    Mariah Alexander Public Speaking 1608 Word Count: 428 Randy Pausch “Last Lecture” Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who discovered that he had pancreatic cancer and was given 3-6 months to live. He is known for developing and telling a speech he called “The Last Lecture” in which he explains his accomplishments in life which include his childhood dreams. His positive‚ humorous‚ and inspirational persona made watching this speech a learning experience‚ as well

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    Every time some speaks‚ he or she shows up his or her feelings‚ revealing to the listener or reader a lot of things about himself or herself. His or her body language always appeared to look how that person is feeling‚ for example; the attitude the speaker take the audience‚ the reader‚ the language‚ the subject that speaker’s talks or as well about himself or herself. The attitudes are very important because it shows to the audience he or she is secure on what he or she is talking about. Expressing

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    Eisenhower had a plan to invade Germany and defeat the Nazis once and for all with the Allied forces’ improved weaponry and soldiers‚ opposed to the Nazis flailing power. In his speech “Order of the Day”‚ General Dwight D. Eisenhower uses the rhetorical devices of logos‚ ethos‚ and pathos within diction and syntax for tone to convey his encouraging

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    to pick what your lasts words on this world would be‚ what would you say? Would you focus on dying or how you spent your life? Many professors around the world are asked to take on this task of composing and delivering a “last lecture”. This lecture would be giving to students at colleges expressing what your lasts thought would be if these were to be your last moments on this world. In Randy Paunch’s LAST LECTURE it was a little different. He got asked to prepare this last lecture but in his case

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    In the passage Flaubert uses various techniques to reveal the conditions of the characters relationship. Flaubert uses diction to establish the contrasting tones between Charles and Emma. The tone Flaubert depicts for Charles is a naïve happiness which then transitions to a more confused tone for Emma‚ revealing their unstable relationship. Flaubert reveals in this passage a rather happy tone for Charles. At one point in the passage it says " at such moments his happiness knew no bounds." This

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    After watching Randy Pausch’s speech‚ the “Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams‚” there were three visual aids that he used to guide his speech. One of them was the vest with the arrows sticking out of his back. He explained it was an emblem representing his journey when he was teaching a pioneering course. He said to the audience that if one tries to take on pioneering that they “will get those arrows in the back.” The point he was getting at was the fact that you will face obstacles and

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    The Last Lecture Reflection The Last Lecture was a very interesting and inspiring book to read. It focuses on living life more than death. The life that Randy Pausch lived was not only educational for his students but for himself and he hoped educational for his children. He reflected on his past and taught his student to live their childhood dreams. Pausch was trying to leave a legacy for his children not only through his last lecture but also in the way he looked at life. Pausch was a man of many

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