Rhetorical question

of George Washington’s legacy. In addition, she uses George Washington’s legacy to make a point about the then-modern day society that she and the audience lived in. In order to effectively communicate her point, Jane Addams uses lots of rhetorical questions, well chosen diction, imagery/illustration, definition, and forms of persuasion throughout her speech. In the beginning of Jane Addams speech, she describes and defines what kind of man George Washington is. She uses descriptive phrases…

validate her experiences to a broader audience. She argues that women must embrace their success, be comfortable with their own power, and not attempt to please everyone, through personal anecdotes, comparison-and-contrast techniques, and rhetorical questions. Sandberg begins her argument that women must embrace their own success using a series of personal anecdotes that reflect on her internal, physical progression of thoughts that have allowed her to develop this argument in her own life.…

topic of the majority of songs, books and movies. In “Eros” Robert Bridges questions the thoughts of an attractive Eros, the master matchmaker, also known as Cupid. Anne Stevenson’s “Eros” provides a different perspective on the popular God by describing him as hideous. Bridges describes an attractive God and Stevenson describes a God who is hideous. Bridges and Stevenson both employ characterization, rhetorical questions, epithets and imagery to convey their contrasting attitudes on how love…

the Virginia Convention,” he uses allusions, metaphors and rhetorical questions to point out what was going on at that time, and to get the President and all others to think, and to understand what was actually going on at that time. For instance from the first couple of paragraphs he wrote to Mr. President, and previous speakers, a metaphor as well as a rhetorical question, “For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery” (10). Earlier Henry was talking…

“How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” is a personal memoir of John Holt’s recollections of being an English teacher. Holt remembers the times when he was the teacher that made children dissect books until their minds no longer held the real meaning of them. Their minds were drilled into finding the ‘correct’ answer and moving on as fast as possible. After multiple arguments with his sister telling him his approach to teaching reading was wrong and hurting the children's love for reading, he…

through his pamphlets to defend the necessity of the war against Britain. Paine explains his position for the war through hypophora, personal anecdotes, references to religion, and shifting pronouns. He speaks out to all the men of Philadelphia who question the purpose of the war, or the necessity, and to any Tory who may come across his pamphlet in order to allow the men to understand and convince them of why he believes that revolution is important and should be supported by any- all…

Question 1: Scott Russell Sanders uses the appeal of logos throughout the passage, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, by appealing to logic, persuading the audience based on sense and reason. In this direct example from the text, “From the beginning, our heroes have been sailors, explorers, cowboys, prospectors, speculators, backwoods ramblers, rainbow-chasers, vagabonds of every stripe,” logos is introduced through excessive detail, giving more than plenty of examples in which we…

deal with grief. O’Brien uses obscenities and rhetorical question to inform the reader on who is telling the story and in what time frame, whether it is 43 year-old O’Brien writing this novel, O’Brien during the vietnam war or another man in the platoon. In the chapter “The Things They Carried”, O'Brien uses a series of rhetorical questions and obscenities to allow the reader that the story is coming from O’Brien during the wars for these were the questions going through his mind in that moment,…

the relationship between man and nature grew despondently, just as Richard Louv emphasizes in his excerpt, the “Last Child in the Woods.” Louv stresses that the loss of nature will hit home in present and future generations by using an anecdote, rhetorical logos, and a sense of nostalgia through pathos. The excerpt begins with researchers at the State University of New York experimenting in order to select the multiple colors that appear on a butterfly’s wings, very intriguing. This news…

Significant discoveries can be provocative and challenging that enables individuals to embark on a confronting journey to rediscover meaning, or a new aspect for the first time. A sense of curiosity and necessity is needed for a discovery to be transformative. An individual must first develop the ideology of being open-minded, strengthening an individual to overcome challenges, perceiving society, self and others differently. Michael Gow’s play Away explores the aspect of the necessity of…