Rhetorical Devices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetorical Devices write by Brendan McGuigan. This book was released on 2011. Rhetorical Devices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Help students shine on the written portion of any standardized test by teaching the skills they need to craft powerful, compelling arguments using rhetorical devices. Students will learn to accurately identify and evaluate the effectiveness of rhetorical devices in not only famous speeches, advertisements, political campaigns, and literature, but also in the blog, newspaper, and magazine entries they read in their daily lives. Students will then improve their own writing strategy, style, and organization by correctly and skillfully using the devices they have learned. Each device is illustrated with clear, real-life examples to promote proper usage and followed up with meaningful exercises to maximize understanding. Pointers are provided throughout this book to help your students develop a unique writing style, and cumulative exercises will help students retain what they have learned."--
Writing with Clarity and Style
Writing with Clarity and Style - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing with Clarity and Style write by Robert A. Harris. This book was released on 2017-12-06. Writing with Clarity and Style available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing with Clarity and Style, 2nd Edition, will help you to improve your writing dramatically. The book shows you how to use dozens of classical rhetorical devices to bring power, clarity, and effectiveness to your writing. You will also learn about writing styles, authorial personas, and sentence syntax as tools to make your writing interesting and persuasive. If you want to improve the appeal and persuasion of your speeches, this is also the book for you. From strategic techniques for keeping your readers engaged as you change focus, down to the choice of just the right words and phrases for maximum impact, this book will help you develop a flexible, adaptable style for all the audiences you need to address. Each chapter now includes these sections: Style Check, discussing many elements of style, including some enhanced and revised sections Define Your Terms, asking students to use their own words and examples in their definitions. It’s in the Cloud, directing students to the Web to locate and respond to various rhetorically focused items, including biographies and speeches. Salt and Pepper, spicing up the study of rhetoric by stretching students’ thinking about how their writing can be improved, sometimes by attending to details such as punctuation, and sometimes by exploring the use of unusual techniques such as stylistic fragments. Review Questions, providing an end-of-chapter quiz to help cement the chapter ideas in long-term memory. Questions for Thought and Discussion, a set of questions designed for either in-class discussion or personal response. New to the Second Edition Additional examples of each device, including from world personalities and the captains of industry More and longer exercises, with a range of difficulty Advice from classical rhetoricians including Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Cicero, and Quintilian.
A Dictionary of Literary Devices
A Dictionary of Literary Devices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dictionary of Literary Devices write by Bernard Marie Dupriez. This book was released on 1991-01-01. A Dictionary of Literary Devices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprising some 4000 terms, defined and illustrated, "Gradus" calls upon the resources of linguistics, poetics, semiotics, socio-criticism, rhetoric, pragmatics, combining them in ways which enable readers quickly to comprehend the codes and conventions which together make up 'literarity.'
Rhetorical Strategies for Composition
Rhetorical Strategies for Composition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetorical Strategies for Composition write by Karen A. Wink. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Rhetorical Strategies for Composition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rhetorical Strategies is a worktext for composition students to apply rhetorical theory in their writing. The exercises interconnect rhetorical skill work for students to practice “thinking on paper” in style (rhetorical figures, emphasis, arrangement); language (audience appropriate, diction, syntax); and conventions (MLA style, format, source handling). Content includes: Aristotle’s Six Parts of an Argument, Rhetorical Situations, Appeals and Fallacies, Thesis Statements, Topic Sentences, Voice, Stylistics, Revision, Documenting Sources, Grammar/Punctuation/Usage, and Visual Arguments. All skills are reflected in a sample student research paper. Content is relevant for AP Composition and Language courses as well as college composition and seminar courses with an emphasis on rhetorical principles.
Contributions of Selected Rhetorical Devices to a Biblical Theology of The Song of Songs
Contributions of Selected Rhetorical Devices to a Biblical Theology of The Song of Songs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contributions of Selected Rhetorical Devices to a Biblical Theology of The Song of Songs write by Mark McGinniss. This book was released on 2011-03-07. Contributions of Selected Rhetorical Devices to a Biblical Theology of The Song of Songs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book demonstrates how the author of the Song of Songs employed certain literary devices for a specific rhetorical purpose to convey certain therological truths. These are the author's use of first person personal pronouns, rhetorical questions, and the various characters that inhabit its pages
