Sam Leith in his introduction to his book “words like loaded pistols” uses multiple types of rhetoric, ironically to explain rhetoric, to hook the reader at the start of the book and to believe what he has to say is important. Sam leith's opening tactic in his introduction is to relate what he is about to tell us to people that, if you don’t live under a rock, you should know. For example he starts off his first sentences with bart simpson, an iconic show, to display how relevant his topic is and how it relate to our everyday lives. Then after he relates rhetoric to Bart simpson, he goes on to seamlessly connecting this topic to historical figures dating back from WW2 such as adolf hitler and william churchill all the way back to present day
