Rhetorical devices are used to get the audience interested in what you are writing about, improve word flow, highlight important ideas or otherwise direct attention to a specific idea. Some rhetorical devices include alliterations, allusions, similes and metaphors.
It is important to use these subject specific rhetorical devices in our writing, because they help us to better express what it is that we are trying to tell the audience. And they help us give better explainations and examples which make our writing more clear. Rhetorical devices when used correctly help us to be better writers.
1. objective information: physical description, things that everyone can see.
2. subjective nature: explaination, character, personality, things people don't see.
3. familial gazes: memories, things that are important to us that have deep meaning.
4. analagies: taking things that we understand to explain something else.
5. metaphor: a comparison made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
I liked this entry because you first explained what a rhetorical tool does, then you told me how it benefits to use them. I also liked the many examples of rhetorical tools you have, and their short and to the point definitions.
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