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    his beloved Duchess. The aim of the essay is to analyze literary devices that emphasize the content of the poem, which includes rhetorical questions, exclamation mark, and em dash. Browning has used extensively rhetorical questions. Rhetorical questions are questions that are posted in a literary work that does not need an answer: the strategic aims of rhetorical questions are for emphasizing an issue or creating an object. Duke indicates the aspect of misogyny through stating “Will’t please you sit

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    Rhetorical questions are often proposed to help get the audience to question themselves. An example of a rhetorical question is what do you consider to be the value of life? Many people will say life is greater than anything else on Earth, but then why do people go around smashing bugs or destroying trees or getting abortions? “Scholars would talk about symbolism in writing, but no one had asked the writers.” At any state, many other people are forced to consider that their view on the subject is

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    Elie Wiesel’s use of rhetorical questions helps make his essay interact with the reader. Rhetorical question is where a the writer asks a question, but it is not answered by the writer but by the reader because the answer is straightforward. Writers use these as a way to add effect, emphasis, and provocation. The first example of this rhetorical device is when Elie Wiesel states, “Would this terrible act drive us apart, I asked myself, or draw us together as a nation? (Wiesel 2)”. This is clearly

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    Questions Rhetorical Readers Ask 1. What is the structure of this particular society as a whole? Where does this society stand in human history? What varieties of men and women now prevail in this society and in this period? These questions are significant because they describe the direct or indirect actions, and results taken by man during the course of his struggles, and how it affects the outcome of his perspective, shaping the reality the individual proceeds to either strive or sink into the

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    Robert Fischell is an inventor of medical devices. His goal is to educate the audience with an informative speech about his three inventions that he believes can have a significant positive effect on millions of people. The first invention he describes consists of a device implanted into a patient to detect acute myocardial infection (AMI). The second invention is a device that helps eliminate migraine headaches. The third invention details the best way to treat epilepsy through a responsive electrical

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    Introduction The satire option that I chose for the purpose of this assignment is the Jon Stewart discussion on the Ferguson, Missouri coverage. Here, Jon, the satirist is an arbiter of American political media, and as a media critic, he is also the former television host of The Daily Show which is a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central. In the video, Jon Stewart critiqued topics revolving around the shooting of teenager Michael Brown by the police. The topics ranged from police

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    through lady macbeth's statement; “Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?”. Lady macbeth provides a range of rhetorical questions and allusions to motivate macbeth. By using the rhetorical question “to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?”, lady macbeth describes her husband as green and pale. These two adjectives alludes to the popular disease at the time of macbeth, anemia. Anemia was heavily

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    activities. Finally, in the sentence ‘ I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.’ By this double-negative sentence, she creates a firm conclusion that women deserve the right to vote naturally. The rhetorical question ‘Are women persons?’ in the concluding paragraph emphasizes that women should deserve to vote and participate in political activities naturally, now

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    Prose Analysis Sheet                                                                                                                                      Amala Nayak The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan Text from the novel- pg.124         “‘Why you act so crazy?’ her mother often asked. Of course, she could not tell her mother she was pregnant. Experience had taught her that her mother worried too much even when she had no reason to worry. If there was something really wrong, her mother would scream

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    with being institutionalized for two years in her memoir, and Elie Wiesel narrates his journey of being imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Within the memoirs, Girl, Interrupted and Night, authors Susanna Kaysen and Elie Wiesel utilize rhetorical questions and similes in a variety of equivalent and different ways to demonstrate that traumatic events have a forceful impact on one’s search for self-identity. In Girl, Interrupted

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