The 'zone of immunity' concept, Joshi says, should be 'understood primarily as a rhetorical device', and that rhetoric - this week at least - is sounding increasingly hollow.
WASHINGTON — Democrats often complained about President George W. Bush's frequent use of a rhetorical device as old as rhetoric itself: creating the illusion of refuting an opponent's argument by mischaracterizing it and then knocking down that mischaracterization.
Speaking of rhetoric, given that Communication comes in a close second to Critical Thinking in nearly every proposed standard, might it be worth teaching students how far they can get with a decent anaphora (Google it) or other rhetorical device?
Excellently translated, it ranges through the devices of rhetoric -- speculative, ironic, elegiac -- with a residue of sorrow that has nothing to do with rhetoric at all.
It uses, in fact, all the time-honored devices of rhetoric, but it doesn't parade them.
A common prescription to literature is to understand the form, devices, and rhetoric in order to unlock the meaning from the words.
In this sense, and along with Whittle et al. [ 50], we also think that "the subtle, reflexive, and situationally competent use of discursive devices in rhetoric plays an important role in the process of organizational change".
A number of employees said they accepted the Washington rhetoric as a political device, and tried to let it roll off their backs.
The third film goes Stateside and appropriates right-wing political rhetoric as a plot device.
But Thomson, who fetishizes a terribly small range of movie devices, of visual rhetoric, is immune to these emotions and ideas.
