Part 1 Identify 5 rhetorical devices from media or from your life (either one wa
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Question
Part 1
Identify 5 rhetorical devices from media or from your life (either one was used on you, or you used one on someone else). explain
Part 2
Identify any rhetorical devices you nd in the following passages and explain your reasoning.
1. I trust you have seen Janet’s le and have noticed the “university” she graduated from.
2. The original goal of the Milosevic government in Belgrade was ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
3. Obamacare: The compassion of the IRS and the efficiency of the post office, all at Pentagon prices.
4. Although it has always had a bad name in the United States, socialism is nothing more or less than democracy in the realm of economics.
5. We’ll have to work harder to get Representative Burger reelected because of his little run-in with the law.
6. It’s fair to say that, compared with most people his age, Mr. Beechler is pretty much bald.
7. During World War II, the U.S. government resettled many people of Japanese ancestry in internment camps.
8. “Overall, I think the gaming industry would be a good thing for our state." —From a letter to the editor, Plains Weekly Record
9. Capitalism, after all, is nothing more or less than freedom in the realm of economics.
10. I'll tell you what capitalism is: Capitalism is Charlie Manson sitting in Folsom Prison for all those murders and still making a bunch of bucks off T-shirts.
11. Clearly, Antonin Scalia is the most corrupt Supreme Court justice in the history of the country.
12. It may well be that many faculty members deserve some sort of pay increase. Nevertheless, it is clearly true that others are already amply compensated.
13. I love some of the bulleting and indenting features of Microsoft Word. I think it would have been a nice feature, however, if they had made it easy to turn some of them off when you don't need them.
Explanation / Answer
Part 1
5 rhetorical devices
1. Alliteration - repetition of initial letters
2. Simile - used to compare
3. Metaphor - used to connect non living thing to living thing
4. Hyperbole - an exaggeration
5. Analogy - comparing two things that have an identical trait.