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    Alcohol Fuelled Violence

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    The ongoing growth of alcohol fuelled violence and causalities has sparked interest in the media recently‚ particularly after the death of ‘one punch’ victim Daniel Christie. Over many years there have been deaths as a result of alcohol fuelled violence but due to the increasingly rapid pace of fatalities it has dominated today’s media. Found to be more common in boys the Australia wide epidemic‚ including the brutal and often fatal “king hit”‚ has now been branded as ‘cowardly’ as it is more suiting

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    is writing about. The audience knows that William Safire has credentials and this creates credibility with the audience. We can only be left with the question of why and how he wants to deviate. As I go through and count‚ one by one‚ the nine rhetorical questions‚ I realize that Safire never gives the reader a chance to think for themselves. He asks‚ “What is

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    "Futility" Wilfred Owen

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    "Futility" Futility means that something is destined to fail. The quality of producing no valuable effect‚ or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The structure of the poem is in balanced stanzas - the tenderness and hopefulness at the beginning; the growing bitterness of the second‚ with its climax. Owen is telling the persona’s story of the death of a comrade as a balance. This has to happen as so many of them died that there still has to be a degree of sanity left in them. "Futility" mourns the

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    English Essay on Cynics

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    Cynics This essay will critically analyse Chris Mann’s Cynics‚ it will discuss the poem’s subject matter and message‚ and pay close attention to the relationship between the poem’s content and form‚ how Mann’s language‚ imagery‚ tone use of rhetorical questions contribute to the poem’s effectiveness. This essay will also explore how an awareness of the political context out of which the poem arises‚ helps the reader appreciate its significance‚ meaning and power as a ‘critique’ and how the features

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    Figures of Speech

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    art‚ either directly or by implication. 1) She was breathtakingly beautiful‚ but he knew that she was forbidden fruit. 2) She transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden. 3) His wife was his Achilles’ heel. F. Antonomasia - A rhetorical term for the substitution of a title‚ epithet‚ or descriptive phrase for a proper name (or of a personal name for a common name)

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    Speech: The Morality of Birth Control What are some examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and specific rhetorical devices in the speech you selected? An example of a fallacy within this speech is where she talked about the third group of people when comes to families. I thought it was kind of messed up that she referred to them as disease creating‚ irresponsible and immoral. I think she’s referring to poor people with no knowledge of birth control. I know she could have referred to them with a better set

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    Hamlet: Syntax and Tone

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    skillful syntax to reveal conflict‚ Hamlet attacks his mother with witty statements‚ belittles her with rhetorical questions (“what’s the matter now?”)‚ wishes he were not her son with exclamation (line 15)‚ and finishes with a command to sit that he may “set us a glass where you may see the inmost part of you.” In summary‚ the syntax utilizes parallelism‚ repetition‚ sarcastic and rhetorical questions‚ exclamations‚ and commands in order to highlight the tone of rising emotion and

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    Taylor D Super English III Hour 5 8 October 2012 Rhetorical Analysis Essay -- Bianchi As a sports fan you most likely attend sporting events like‚ an OKC thunder basketball game‚ a Green Bay Packers football game‚ or maybe even a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game where beer is a choice of drink. Both women and men enjoy drinking beer and eating hot dogs at sporting events. Bianchi’s use of rhetorical questions calculated to encourage the reader’s opposition to drinking beer at sports events

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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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