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AUTHOR'S STYLE RHETORICAL DEVICES A. DIRECTIONS: Identify four rhetorical devices in this excerpt from a persuasive speech. Explain the effect the author achieves with each one. You must vote! If you love your country, you must vote. If you believe that your country can be better, you must vote. We all should have our say in the political leaders we elect: the young student and the old retiree; the struggling worker and the wealthy businessman. It is a privilege, it is a right, it is a duty

AUTHOR'S STYLE RHETORICAL DEVICES A. DIRECTIONS: Identify four rhetorical devices-example-1
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1. Anaphora

2. Parallelism

3. Epiphora

4. Alliteration

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1. To get ahead, a person needs to have good goals, study hard and plan well for the future.

2. The professor needs to either publish more books or work with his students.

3. She is having good days, bad days, long days and short days.

4. Hike the Appalachian Trail is exploring the Panama Canal and the Mississippi ford.

Explanation:

The above are the four rhetorical devices used in the given passage.

Anaphora is known to be a rhetorical device that is seen at the beginning of successive classes that repeats a word or phrase in a sentence.

Anaphora is seen in the line: "It is a privilege, it is a right, it is a duty."

Parallelism is the use of a particular grammatical structure in a sentence. Parallelism is seen in the line: "We all should have our say in the political leaders we elect: the young student and the old retiree; the struggling worker and the wealthy businessman."

Epiphora is the rhetorical device that repeats a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

It is seen in the line: "You must vote! If you love your country, you must vote. If you believe that your country can be better, you must vote."

Alliteration is known as a rhetorical device that repeats the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that adjacent or closely connected.

Alliteration is seen in the line: "You must vote! If you love your country, you must vote. If you believe that your country can be better, you must vote."

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