Rhetorical question

without her brother. She was more powerful than any human, yet was still suffering greatly, and just as much as any human might suffer in a similar situation, such as the Latins and Trojans with the war. Her suffering was shown through her rhetorical questions, hopeless and despairing diction, and mix of short and long sentences throughout her speech. These elements of her speech helped Virgil achieve the effects of the speech, but more importantly, allowed Virgil to use the speech to…

The monologue is from the Twelfth Night. That monologue encompasses various literary elements that have varying significance to the monologue itself and the readers as well. The extent of this significance is dependent on the extent of the meaning that the literary devices add to the monologue. Therefore, the literary devices and elements employed in the monologue add meaning to it, make it more interesting, provide an understanding of how various elements can be analyzed in society and…

government and how citizens should respond to governmental issues. Thoreau’s primary method of persuasion employs the use of rhetorical strategies to make readers want to make a change by creating a sense of self-realization of the ideas in the reader. Readers realize that there is a problem that exists, and will want to fix them. Thoreau uses parallelism, rhetorical questions, and paradoxes in order to persuade people to make a change in government. In Thoreau’s essay, “On the Duty of Civil…

Ewell. Bob Ewell is an abusive father who does not treat Mayella well which causes her a lot of trouble. Atticus Finch the lawyer who interrogated Mayella in the trial plays an important part in Mayella’s innocence. Atticus aggressively asks her questions she has no answers to which scares her. Mayella Ewell grew up without a mother and friends. She did not have the same childhood if any at all as a regular person. Therefore in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird,…

use of repetitive diction, misleading rhetorical questions, and a lack of pathos, Comey is not able to clearly convey his purpose. In his speech, Comey is constantly repeating phrases in different context leading the audience to associate the same mental image they got from the last time the phrase was used. Comey’s most constantly repeated word is evil. Not only does he say evil by itself many times he is regularly using…

passage from John M. Barry’s book, The Great Influenza, an account of the 1918 flu epidemic, he writes about scientists and their research. Barry’s purpose is to have his reader question everything so that reality can be found in the end. He utilizes the use of anaphora, imagery, extended metaphor, and rhetorical questions to make the reader reflect in a scientific way. To set the stage, Barry starts off by structuring his first paragraph anaphorically to give the reader two choices:…

reflects on both an internal conflict to keep a strong faith and an external struggle to keep her life together through her son’s death. Hummel uses repetition, imagery, rhetorical questions, and the structure of her poem to evoke emotion and convey a message to the reader. By using repetition, imagery, structure, and rhetorical questions Hummel created a meaningful and personable poem. The Ghazal structure Hummel chose to use in this poem allows us to understand her personal story. One Life can…

All hail Caesar! Julius Caesar is a historical figure who is famous for defeating the sons of the Roman General Pompey during 44 BC. He was assassinated by his friend Brutus and a group of conspirators due to their fear of Caesar gaining too much power and turning Rome into a dictatorship . In 1599, William Shakespeare wrote the play “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” about Caesar’s assassination. In the Act 3 of the play, Brutus addresses a crowd of people at Caesar’s funeral. He explains that he…

a testament on the suffering mankind endures throughout life. “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, To die,” (lines 56-60), in these lines Hamlet begins to describe the pain mankind suffers, and questions if living is worth these cruel acts of sin. While this is only one interpretation of the soliloquy, the copious allusions to the common cruelties of day-to-day life combined with the repetition of the allusions to death provide strong textual…

students, changed, but also every person that heard or read the speech felt inspired. George Saunders’ commencement speech was rhetorically effective in proving that kindness can get you far in life by using repetition, parallelism, ethos, and rhetorical questions. When people repeat a certain phrase or a sentence it is more memorable…