Rhetorical techniques

Before Ifemelu leaves for America, she shares her weekends with Obinze in Nsukka. Here, Adichie describes Nsukka in a long paragraph for this is the last time we are in Nigeria until the end of the novel. Each sentence reveals more about the town, but I will mostly examine the figurative language that is used at the end of the passage. Page 113 reads, “The church bazaars would leave the air redolent, smoky from mass cooking. Some nights, the heat lay thick like a towel. Other nights, a sharp…

Owl City’s six time platinum single, Fireflies is certainly a unique chart topper of 2009. In a particular year for edgy hip hop, it stands out as a pure, soothing electropop song about, quite simply, fireflies and the inability to fall asleep at night. Owl City was a project created in 2007 by multi instrumentalist Adam Young. Before signing with Universal Republic records, Young developed a significant following on myspace exposing social media to his soothing yet still upbeat style of music…

persuasive techniques, like ethos, and rhetorical devices, like repetition and rhetorical questions, to manipulate their audiences…

common rules of English writing but this technique, instead of distorting the meaning of his words, was actually strengthening our image of these intense emotions. His vast and immense vocabulary brought new meaning to our language and contributed greatly to our…

ask how they could possibly be affected and . Blackfish has shown that keeping killer whales in captivity brings danger to the whales themselves, the whales they interact with on a daily basis, and the people around them. The film uses many rhetorical techniques such as pathos, ethos, and logos, to demonstrate that it is inhumane for whales to be held in captivity. Killer whales are very human-like in terms of their brain…

again, a slight appeal to emotion is found when Marino uses an anecdote to his father not doing what he loved in life, but what supported Marino’s family, “My father didn’t do what he loved.” - (Page 2, Para 7) Marino also uses this when asking his rhetorical questions to make his audience ponder on their own lives. Marino’s argument is effective by using appeal to emotion in a way that it can make the audience think in terms of morals, and the audience can sympathize with the argument. Allowing…

brutality toward Caesar and were traitors. The effectiveness and ineffectiveness of both Antonys and Brutus’s speech to the people are conveyed through the tone and literary and rhetorical devices throughout the speeches. During Brutus’s speech he is effective in persuading the people by using the literacy devices such as rhetorical questions, faulty reasoning, and finally loaded…

John Simon, the author of “Why Good English Is Good for You”, addresses his arguments mainly towards people who do not employ the use of proper English and those who shape their minds; Simon engages certain rhetorical choices in order to prove that good English is tremendously beneficial to all individuals. Having initially written this article for Esquire magazine, Simon was able to reach a broad audience to communicate his ideas. Throughout the majority of the article, the conversation is…

only from his distinctive opinions regarding Pan-Africanism, but also from how he presented his justifications, especially in writing. In his works, Garvey employs several rhetorical strategies which function successfully to support his main argument for African-American colonization in Africa. However, some of his techniques also threaten to undermine his overall political platform. For starters, although Garvey went through a dramatic transformation from “marginal…

The main rhetorical strategies used in paragraph 31 include logos, ethos, rhetorical questions, anaphora, and similes. He uses logos in the first sentence when he discusses being an extremist. King uses ethos when he talks about Jesus, John, and Paul. The main rhetorical question of this passage was “Will we be extremists … love?” King uses anaphora when he repeats, “was not” in the beginning…