attention and emotions into the topic by using rhetorical devices. Rhetorical devices are special patterns of language used to make ideas memorable and stir up emotions. Both Churchill and Gandhi used the four types of rhetorical devices: repetition‚ parallelism‚ allusion and dramatic alternatives‚ to grasp their audience’s attention. Repetition is the repeating of any key words and concepts. In “Defending Nonviolence‚” Gandhi uses repetition by saying‚ “I wanted to avoid violence‚ I want to avoid violence
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Psycholinguistic peculiarities of oral speech Psycholinguistic or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enables humans to acquire‚ use and comprehend and produce language. Psycholinguistics covers the cognitive processes that make it possible to generate a grammatical and meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures as well as the processes that make it possible to understand utterances‚ words‚ texts. Psycholinguistics
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On the 6th of September 1997‚ six days after Diana‚ Princess of Wales had been killed in a car accident‚ her younger brother Earl Charles Spencer delivered a eulogy at her funeral that was televised to an audience of 2.5 billion people. The eulogy is well known for Charles’ loving description of Diana‚ his accusations over her death towards the media and the rhetoric of his words. Those that loved and admired Diana were expecting the eulogy to honour her life and lay her to rest in peace‚ and a combination
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In the “Speech to the Virginia Convention” (1775) Patrick Henry convinced colonists to fight against Britain; he uses four main rhetorical devices‚ rhetorical questions‚ allusions‚ imagery‚ and parallelism. Through these devices he softens his tone to get his fiery messages across. With rhetorical questions he suggests the answer he wants the colonists to make. Likewise‚ as he uses imagery‚ colonists can better understand the whole picture. One device that he employs is asking a rhetorical question
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order to sustain the colonist’s motivation for independence‚ persuasive tactics had to be put forth to maintain the strong colonist army in order to break free from tyranny and claim freedom. In “The Crisis” Paine employs analogy‚ aphorisms‚ and parallelism to buttress the colonist’s needs to stay motivated throughout this cruel and acerbic revolution. Paine uses analogy to reinforce England as without God in order to persuade soldiers on the battlefield and patriots at home to continue to fight for
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Evidence(Text) | techniques/devices featured in quote (Style) | Figurative analysis specific to each quote(Effect) | Connections to theme / society / culture AND implications on character & conflict(Meaning) | First and last sentences with ellipses between and page number. | Appropriate and relevant literary devices/techniques on display in your quote | Analysis that is detailed‚ insightful‚ and includes discussion of the specific literary devices mentioned in “techniques/devices” section.
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Graphological Deviation By graphology is meant the encoding of meaning in visual symbols. Deviation at this level seems to be much more interesting‚ but has been sadly neglected in literary discussions in the past. Graphological deviation can occur in any sub-area of graphology‚ such as the shape of the text‚ the type of print‚ grammetrics‚ punctuation‚ indentation‚ etc. Graphological Deviation‚ is the deviation in which poets disregard the rules of writing. They write the words in such a
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The Summary Response January 26‚ 2013 DUE: February 1‚ 2013 The Summary Response builds on summary in two ways. First‚ before you can respond to a text‚ you must be able to summarize its main points. In other words‚ you must understand a text on its own terms before you can express an opinion about it. Second‚ the Summary Response expands textual meaning by including reader response. It’s the kind of reader response‚ however‚ that distinguishes a good Summary Response from a bad one. A
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN L.N. GUMILEV EURASIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY Department of theory and practice of foreign languages COURSE PAPER Theme: “EXPRESSIVE FUNCTION IN THE PUBLICIST STYLE” Major: 050119 “Foreign Language: two foreign languages” Written by: Astana – 2012 Contents Introduction 1. The style and types of stylistic
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are associated with different interpretations. Robert Graves conveys the differing interpretations through the exertion of imagery with usage of couplets‚ parallelism‚ and a fluctuating tone to distinguish the contrasting views between the interpretation and attitudes between the words "nude" and "naked". In particular‚ the adoption of parallelism is evident in "Naked and Nude" through the author’s portrayal of the distinctive nuances associated with the variations of the words naked and nude. In
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