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Repetition to drive home the number of injustices and usurpations enacted by the British king, and the worthiness of the American cause of independence.
Which rhetorical device does Black Hawk use in this passage? "The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter."
A bias fallacy is a mistaken believed based on an unsound argument based on bias. An example of bias fallacy would be "Mitt Romney can't be a good leader because he is Mormon." Rhetorical device is a technique used by a writer to get an emotional response. Antithesis is a form of rhetorical device which juxtaposes different ideas such as "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
A rhetorical technique, otherwise known as a 'device' or 'figure of speech', is a deliberate use of language aimed at making a point memorable, impactful and persuasive. Although most originated in Ancient Greece, they are still used by politicians and business leaders today to great effect. There are literally dozens of techniques, too many to mention here.
It would be helpful if you could provide the excerpt you are referring to so that I can identify the rhetorical device used by G. K. Chesterton in that specific passage.
It is unclear which specific excerpt or rhetorical device you are referring to. However, some commonly used rhetorical devices in Kennedy's inaugural address include parallelism, anaphora (repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive clauses), and antithesis (contrasting ideas presented in parallel structures).
Answer this question… Rhetorical question
Why not? Rhetorical questions, as their name implies, are a rhetorical device designed to draw the readers in and make them think. Is this not the point of a reflective essay? (Alas, although the reader of your essay will be able to spot a rhetorical question, the robots employed by WikiAnswers cannot. They get all shirty when one attempts to answer a question with a rhetorical question, as above.)
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Repetition to drive home the number of injustices and usurpations enacted by the British king, and the worthiness of the American cause of independence.
prejudicial use of rhetorical devices?
The answer is insinuation but I'm not sure that it's a rhetorical device.
Rhetorical Explanation.
Emerson uses a metaphor in this excerpt from "Self-Reliance." He compares the individual's will to "sallies" that are restricted and shaped by the "law of his being," emphasizing the idea that human nature imposes limits on our actions.
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