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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Rhetorical devices"”.
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Byron's Use of Rhetorical Devices for Satire in the Vision of Judgement
… the poem is a sustained niece of irony; 3) rhetorical devices; the poem uses a large number of then effectively for satiric ends.</p>
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Signifying on the Greeks: the use of rhetorical devices in jazz improvisation analysis
… Building upon and bringing together musical and rhetorical scholarship from both Western and Afrological perspectives, this study lays out a theoretical framework and analytical process for applying the principles and devices of rhetoric to jazz improvisation analysis. Taken from both Western and …
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Interactive applications and rhetorical devices for guiding parent-clinician communication through data visualizations
… in parent-clinician communication through: (1) rhetorical devices that are used to guide people's understanding of data visualizations, and (2) interactive applications I have built that explore the role of data visualizations in clinical communication. Through exploring cognitive and practical …
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A study of rhetorical devices used in selected car advertisements in the Namibian newspaper
… completely different from everyday language. The rhetorical elements and unusual linguistic arrangement of words make the language of car advertisement special and unique. This study seeks to examine the rhetorical devices in selected car advertisements, to examine the language used in car …
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A multimodal analysis of the rhetorical devices used for meaning-making and humour in Saudi media cartoons
… the multimodal manifestations of the rhetorical devices frequently employed to create meaning and humour in 202 English-language cartoons collected from the Saudi media. The five key findings relate to three areas of focus addressed in the research questions: the role of theme in the …
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Retorinės figūros TED kalbose verslo tema /
… knowledge and input. This research examines the rhetorical devices used by TED speakers in their speeches on business topics. Provided theoretical material describes rhetoric and its origin, business language and how it differs from ordinary speech, certain rhetorical devices: phonetic, lexical, …
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The effective use of metaphor in hermeneutically-based landscape architectural design
… central to this thesis, which contends that the rhetorical devices of symbol and metaphor provide excellent vehicles for creating meaningful forms and experiences within the landscape. The intention of this thesis is to clarify the understanding of these two rhetorical devices. Much of this …
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Dialogues of persuasion: the Reformation dialogues printed on the Continent during the reign of Henry VIII
… interpretative framework for them. The five rhetorical devices the dialogue authors consistently employed in order to produce a polemic of Reform can be used as a guide to reading those texts. By analysing how and for what purpose the Reformers utilised these rhetorical devices of the …
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White or Wrong: Application of Whiteness Theory in First-Year Composition Classes
… understanding of their own subjectivity and rhetorical devices.
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Arguing the Genome: A Topology of the Argumentation Behind the Construction of the Human Genome Project
… or rejecting creation of the HGP and the rhetorical devices used to further those arguments had a major influence on the shape the HGP took in 1991. The argumentation used both for and against the creation of the HGP before the public as well as on the border between the public and …
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Black and blue: A metaphoric criticism
… investigate the ways in which blues lyrics apply rhetorical invention, specifically metaphor. Analysis of a sample of songs from the Blues Hall of Fame first explores how classical rhetorical devices are utilized in blues lyrics; Secondly, through metaphoric criticism the unique idiom of the blues …
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The universality of the sounds and silences in the works of Sarah Orne Jewett
… and with nature. The study identifies silence devices in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, "A Dunnet Shepherdess," "William's Wedding," and "A White Heron." It then examines the rhethorical functions of the devices identified, analyzes them for their contributions to the meaning of each …
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Opening windows into the past: A study of the importance of annotations, footnotes, and the resulting reaccentuation of Victorian editions for students
… that annotations and footnotes are excellent rhetorical devices for editors of Victorian editions for students and that annotations and footnotes contribute to reaccentuation of Victorian text, which leads to students experiencing creative understanding, which, in turn, allows editors to …
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Figures of <i>Musica Poetica</i> in the <i>Passacaglias</i> of Dieterich Buxtehude and J.S Bach
… century, theorists and composers developed rhetorical devices to establish a link to words. Joachim Burmeister, Christoph Bernhard, and Johann Mattheson all codified musical-rhetorical figures into a practice known as <i>Musica Poetica</i>. Also in the seventeenth century, theorists, such as …
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The spurn of the screw : Henry James's project of perversion management in three late supernatural tales
… is on James's use of gothic conventions and rhetorical devices in an abiding project of perversion management, whereby unacceptable sexuality and sexual impulses are relegated to the register of the ghostly. James's use of preterition, prosopopoeia, and aposiopesis in the creation of a …
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Applause, Laughter, Chants, and Cheers: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Skill of the “Great Communicator”
… content analytic approach to analyze the use of rhetorical devices in televised Republican National Convention (RNC) addresses by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. By measuring rhetorical strategies and their relationship with the type, strength, synchrony, and duration of audience responses …
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HILLARY CLINTON MOBILIZES INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AGAINST IRAN WITH THE TRADITIONAL RHETORIC OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY
… Clinton summons a number of the traditional rhetorical devices associated with Woodrow Wilson's notion of collective security; although her cable appears simple, almost neutral, she employs an idiom of internationalism, dually voiced from objective and leadership perspectives, within a …
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"The Rhetoric of ""Explanation in Lucretius' ""De Rerum Natura"
… of didactic epos, and examines this choice as a rhetorical move that stems from the programmatic goals set by Epicurus. Chapter Two examines the questions of how Lucretius structured his poem, what rhetorical devices did he use to further its transparency, and how are the forms of exposition and …
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Science and Natural Philosophy in the Poetry of Heinrich von Meissen (Frauenlob)
… philosophical information into these poems. Rhetorical devices like synecdoche, enjambment, concatenation, ekphrasis, and personification are used repeated and strategically in the leichs as didactic tools and hermeneutic guides, enabling the audience to augment the text’s overt theological, …
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A RHETORICAL INVESTIGATON OF BLACK WOMEN COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS
… two theoretical frameworks, BFT and feminist rhetorical theory. Rhetorical criticism, through which I analyze the social justice discourse of African-American women, constitutes my method of analysis. The artifacts for this study are 12 speeches by six African-American women (Tanya Fields, …
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