Rhetorical techniques

McClurg, Andrew J. The Rhetoric of Gun Control. American University Law Review, vol. 42, Fall 1992, n.p. Discusses the use (and abuse) of rhetorical techniques in the gun control debate, including fallacies in reasoning, emotional appeals, and disreputable argument techniques such as ad hominem, straw man, and slippery slope. ... 

Alliteration, that is, repetition of two or more words, as in the Martin Luther King speech, or repetition of a sound, usually a consonant, is a rhetorical technique that can be used in the titles of documents to attract readers. Consider these examples ... 

Finally, metaphors and similes, which are discussed earlier in this chapter, are examples of rhetorical techniques. Irish and Weiss (2009) provide a detailed discussion of using rhetorical techniques to enhance document effectiveness. 

On the whole, the commentaries I have surveyed have been rather reticent in condemning the divine husband s sexual abuse of his wife described in these passages from Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Six rhetorical techniques in particular are commonly relied upon to mitigate the seriousness of the problem. 

The essay appeared as The Cinema in Arts (Jvme 192.6), in the Nation and Athenaeum (3 July 192.6) and as The Movies and Reality in New Republic (4 August 192.6). The New Republic essay was published by prior arrangement (but without Woolf s consent) from Nation and Atheruieum s page proofs. In all the versions Woolf is trying to analyse the power of cinema and film technologies and reveals her swift and ready acquisition of cinematic metaphors, not as a rhetorical gesture, but rather as a detailed, sophisticated response to cinema techniques. In her diaries she describes... 

Within the Cycle of Technical Documentation in Large Regulatory Industries, rhetorical choices can be strategic or habitual. As we have shown in previous chapters, interviewers can prompt miners to assume new viewpoints. Agencies can use these techniques to create the rhetorical conditions that evoke elaboration, demonstration, and redefinition. They can use gesture to explore, query, and co-construct a more adequate representation of risk. 

Here, A. calls Christ the voice of justice vox iustitiae). The technique used to unmask and defeat his adversaries is rhetorical, and derives from Socratic dialectic. The question who is without sin is tactical it establishes a common ground for assent between the parties to the dispute and thus lays the ground for the defeat of Christ s opponents. On the technique in general, cf Cicero, De fimbus 1.6.18. On A. s admiration for Socrates verbal acumen, cf civ. 8.3 14.8. Cf also Cicero, De oratore 3.16.60. 

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