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    “The Trashmen” hint at the fragility of the bird species‚ as well as emphasizing the necessity of birds in not just our physical lives‚ but our pop culture. In this excerpt from the book Silent Spring‚ Rachel Carson racks up her score in the using rhetorical devices game in an attempt to convey her heartfelt message of the bird holocaust of 1959‚ where the farmers (or basically bird Hitlers)‚ sprayed gas and poison all over the innocent woodland creatures. Carson gives background info (paragraph 1)

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    By doing this it makes people wonder what is the Australian dream actually is and do we want it this way? Like The Messenger Grant also uses rhetorical questions such as “who are we? And what sort of country do we want to be?” The reason for this is to get people to question their knowledge and perspective on people and the world. He also uses direct speech such as “we‚ you and our” which is also

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    killed. 3) At the start of the poem what rhetorical question is asked by Owen before he goes to answer it? Owen asks a rhetorical question in the beginning of the poem which he then answers throughout the rest of the poem as evident in “what passing bells for those who die as cattle?” The question asked is a rhetorical question which gives no time for the reader to answer however the poem does that. Caesura has been used in this rhetorical question because it will give time for the reader

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    Year 8 Speech Structure Sheet: Introduction: Attention grabber: You need to start in an interesting way to engage your audience. Possibilities include a famous quote‚ a rhetorical question‚ an interesting fact‚ an anecdote or personal experience. The attention grabber must relate to your topic. (1 sentence) Acknowledge your audience: You must acknowledge who you’re speaking to‚ whether it be classmates‚ ladies and gentlemen or UNESCO committee members. The audience is outlined on your task sheet

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    How effective is Old Major’s speech in chapter one? In Chapter one‚ Old Major gives a speech about how the animals should rebel against Mr Jones‚ the human and leader of the farm in order to please all of the animals by having satisfactory amounts of the essentials. This rebellion would lead into Animalism. Animalism represents communism and how all animals should be equal. Old Major symbolizes Lenin. Lenin was a revolutionary thinker who came up with the basic concept of the Russian Revolution

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    affair. With the use of figurative language the images are seen‚ smelled and heard. An authoritative voice is created to advise and command attention‚ through the use of instructive language throughout the six stanzas. Personification‚ analogy‚ rhetorical question and the way a word sounds‚ are also used to express advice. Each stanza effectively develops in showing the growth of revulsion the speaker feels towards the addressee‚ through the use of figurative language. "Think‚ now:" (line 1)

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    the speech "The Virginia Convention" Patrick Henry set out to convince the Virginia delegates that the war with England is inevitable‚ the longer they wait the harder to win the war and that the war had already started. The author uses repetition‚ rhetorical questions‚ and facts to allow the speech to be more effective‚ interesting‚ and strong. Repetition is one of the stronger designs that Patrick uses to help stress the importance of taking on this battle now rather than waiting and being to late

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    David Helwig’s‚ Haunted by lives unlived‚ utilizies many of the strategies used in assignment writing. Helwig mainly concentrates on anecdotes and how they relate to audience appeal‚ but he still includes the other strategies for assignment writing. Anecdote’s are frequently being used in Helwig’s essay. Primarly‚ he explains his teaching career and his presentation of Robert Frost’s poem‚ The Road Not Taken: "I sometimes presented this poem to students"‚ (Helwig 55). Secondly‚ he explains his first

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    contributes to a positive sense of self and personal identity. Paradoxically‚ Felik’s immersion into his polish heritage inhibits his capacity to assimilate and contribute to inevitable sense of separation within the rift between father and son. The rhetorical question asking if his “father” ever attempted “to learn English?” combined with the metaphor describing the ‘clerk’ asking in “dancing bear grunts” reveals lack of empathy‚ as well as hostility between Feliks’ and his immediate culture‚ a product

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    psychology behind it Poetic Devices Contrast- The persona uses rhetorical questions and then answers them. She further changes her punctuation in stanza 2. The contrast from asking to answering and short broken sentence to long fluent ones shows not only the change in her behavior and form when she becomes the socouyant but also emphasizes to the contrast between the ‘ol higue’ and that what keeps her alive‚ a baby. Rhetorical Question The persona asks ‘And who to blame- for the murder inside

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