Putting an African accent on Othello's lines, the actor is, however, too inclined to rush the verse and muffle its pulse, thus blunting the impression that the hero's grandiloquence is a rhetorical self-image he has needed to create as a defence against prejudice.
I hate to say this of other feminists, but aspects of their feminism – the anti-intellectualism, emphasis on innate knowledge, fetishisation of tiny ideological differences, heresy hunting, conspiracy theories, rhetorical use of images of disgust, talk of stabs in the back and romantic apocalypticism – smack less of feminism than of a cult.
What does this tense tell you about how factual or speculative the statement is? –Are there examples of rhetorical devices (such as images or metaphors) that the author uses in this sentence to emphasize a particular point?
Instead he lets the soldiers state their case, tosses in some nifty special effects (the photos zip about nicely) and, with extraordinary meticulousness and to no real analytic purpose, restages some of the worst images, a rhetorical gesture that registers as an unfortunate attempt to trump the originals.
The final cluster of challenges concerns language, images, and "rhetorical space".
This rendering of the crisis takes its rhetorical force from the famous image of ICBM missile sites under construction at San Cristobal in western Cuba.
This situation would only be changed a little later, when a new generation, more committed to exploring the rhetorical devices of the electronic image, finally entered the scene.
But Welles is, after all, himself a Shakespearean character—he is even the cinema's Shakespeare, and his images have a rhetorical and psychological power that is a worthy counterpart to the language of the plays.
The unhurried pace distracts as well as charms, and the same holds true of some of the more obvious rhetorical strategies, like the repeated images of Atim and Nassara sweating side by side while cutting dough and feeding the oven.
We then reread each text looking for specific material including images, metaphors, scenarios, rhetorical devices (such as association depicting two concepts as similar or related and dissociation depicting two concepts as dissimilar or mutually exclusive), underpinning assumptions (eg, about the safety or reliability of technologies) and overarching storylines.
