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Rhetorical Strategies and Stylistic Devices

Write a well-structured essay of approximately 1000 -1200 words in which you examine how each speaker is positioned within the debate. In your essay you must compare and contrast the writers’/speaker’s use of style, structure, linguistic devices (including figurative language, rhetorical features, language features and discourse markers) and register to convey feelings, attitude and purpose. When having a debate, it is evident that each speaker has a different opinion or view about the...

OAE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 020 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% stanza - correct answer A group of lines in a poem lyric vs. narrative poem - correct answer lyric -- does not tell a story/expresses the personal feelings, observations, or thoughts of a speaker narrative -- poem that tells story sonnet - correct answer a 14 line poem containing 3 quatrains and 1 couplet quatrain - correct answer A four line stanza cinquain - correct answer a poem with 5 lines that contains a 2-4-6-8-2 s...

Commrc 0310 Final Exam Questions All 100% Solved What marks goal-directed discourse? - Answer -careful selection of symbols, construction of appeals and engagement of listeners and readers as feeling and valuing beings as well as thinking beings. Are the appeals of rhetoric adapted, universal, or neutral appeals? - Answer -Adapted What are Gregg's six basic patterns of human perception and what do they mean? - Answer -1. The principle of edging or formulating boundaries. The brain perc...

Eng 3: Unit 3 Practice Questions on - ANSWER the words a writer chooses exposition - ANSWER clear explanation tone - ANSWER the attitude a writer takes towards his topic and his audience; it may be enthusiastic, serious, humorous, sarcastic, etc. tropes - ANSWER literary or rhetorical devices that consist in the use of words in all but their literal sense Topic - ANSWER The topic of nonfiction is like a theme in fiction. The writer must decide upon the topic of his work unless it is ...

COMMRC 0310 Final Exam Questions and Answers What marks goal-directed discourse? - Answer-careful selection of symbols, construction of appeals and engagement of listeners and readers as feeling and valuing beings as well as thinking beings. Are the appeals of rhetoric adapted, universal, or neutral appeals? - Answer-Adapted What are Gregg's six basic patterns of human perception and what do they mean? - Answer-1. The principle of edging or formulating boundaries. The brain perceives ...

rhetorical situation - correct answer summary -discourse derives meaning from the situation exigence - correct answer imperfection marked by urgency that can be solved by rhetoric audience - correct answer people able and willing to make a change/are open to persuasion constraints - correct answer anyt...

rhetoric - correct answer messages that rely on verbal and nonverbal symbols that more or less intentionally influence social attitudes, values, beliefs and actions. rhetorical acts - correct answer .public audiences, purposeful, more or less obvious social concerns, verbal or nonverbal symbols, reshape the way people think, act, believe, and feel rhetorical artifacts - correct answer ...

Interpretation - correct answer Interpretation is the process of deciding what it means that the rhetor used the particular devices you discovered in the analysis phase. Inferences - correct answer reasonable conclusions based on evidence from one's analysis of how a message is constructed. Evaluation - correct answer Is an interpretation that make...