Sentence examples for rhetorical mode from inspiring English sources
noun
One of the several ways of writing that include variety, conventions, and purposes of writing, such as exposition, argumentation, description, and narration.
But dire prediction sometimes seems the court's default rhetorical mode.
"I, Jean" — her chief rhetorical mode is emphasis — reminds us frequently of her I.Q.
"I, Jean"—her chief rhetorical mode is emphasis reminds us frequently of her I.Q.
This is a pretty good wisecrack — the essential rhetorical mode of the nineteen-twenties, when the epigram began to chew gum.
Though preachers might be more careful now, the dominant rhetorical mode is defiance: Moss and the other preachers cannot afford to be seen as capitulators.
This rhetorical mode risks locating some large part of a woman's cultural worth in other people's hatred of her or at least making those things seem inextricable.
He claimed that literature is the only kind of writing that is aware of the instability of the distinction between the literal and the figurative, between grammatical and rhetorical modes of meaning.
Every modern American president is forced to learn the art of switching rhetorical modes, from the stern tones of leader-of-the-free-world to the folksy approachability of a political cheerleader.
Barthes mixes rhetorical modes endlessly query, theory, conjecture, description, rumination, and memory all play their part and the result is a kind of pecking away, from all angles, at how it feels to see and to be alive.
What is sometimes thought of as eclecticism particularly in the posthumous masterwork, the Syntagma Philosophicum actually recasts philosophy as a fully-referenced scholarly enterprise, advancing historical styles and rhetorical modes in philosophical research and exposition.
What is to add?" "Now he's repeating himself!" said Rubio, lampooning Trump's rhetorical default mode: "Everyone's dumb.
