Sentence examples for rhetorical conventions from inspiring English sources

Stephen's response was Jewish in its concerns; in form it followed Hellenistic rhetorical conventions (Josh. 24:2–14; Acts 3 12 26).

Rapping can simulate a political speech or address, rhetorical conventions that are generally inaccessible to the marginal youth who form the base of this movement.

Despite the collection's rather unfortunate title (reminiscent of torture itself) -- the poets (randomly ordered) set their own rhetorical conventions.

The homilies were written down by stenographers and subsequently circulated, revealing a style that tended to be direct and greatly personal, but was also formed by the rhetorical conventions of his time and place.

Wholly different in temperament (Clement urbane and allusive, Tertullian vigorous and vulgar), both men wrote distinguished prose with regard to form and rhetorical convention.

Whereas I hear completely normal rhetorical exaggeration — the equivalent of Obama using his 2008 convention speech to argue that John McCain's only answer to human suffering is "you're on your own".

Energetic, seemingly healthy, yet limited by the Twenty-second Amendment and the convention of rhetorical discretion, Clinton felt that he had two options: "You can sit there and feel sorry that you're not President anymore, or you can find some way to use what you know, and who you know, and what you know about how to do things, and go out there and do all the good you can.

For all the "diversity" at his convention and his rhetorical "compassion," Mr. Bush drew a third less of the black vote than his father and Bob Dole did.

While these narrative conventions and tropes have rhetorical appeal, the evidence does not compel their selection.

And they may be closer to this formula than they realize, for it fits naturally into the rhetorical framework the Democrats built at their convention.

Before I discuss the rhetorical-relational organization of our text as a semantic unit, let me just briefly survey the resources of rhetorical complexing: see Figure 8. Figure 7 Graphic conventions used in the analysis of texts in terms of rhetorical complexes.