Sentence examples for rhetorical techniques from inspiring English sources

White is very good on Lincoln's rhetorical techniques.

A careful reading of these articles reveals a pattern of rhetorical techniques: a minimization of trazodone's advantages and an emphasis on its negative qualities.

Jôhn Leland's (July 8) delightful parsing of rock lyrics reminded me of teaching English lit at City University and reaching into popular music to illustrate rhetorical techniques, from alliteration to zeugma.

Here the use of biblical allusion is not symbolism or metaphor, which are both rhetorical techniques for enriching a narrative whose primary interest does not rest with the larger resonances of the Bible.

He sent Gulliver to different lands from those Hythloday discovered, but Gulliver found the same follies and the same vices, and he employed a good many of the same rhetorical techniques his predecessor had used to expose them.

It's impossible not to see the racist rhetorical techniques of generalization and demonization applied to the world's Muslim population.

In applying them to a term of conventional rhetoric, Aristotle appeals to a well-known rhetorical technique, but, at the same time, restricts and codifies the original meaning of 'enthymeme': properly understood, what people call 'enthymeme' should have the form of a sullogismos, i.e., a deductive argument.

This is a common rhetorical technique for vice chancellors, who often balance a cosy relationship with government with an increasingly restless atmosphere on campus.

Telling modern parables using ancient rhetorical technique to invoke an imagined future of change; drawing on a scattershot range of inspirations from Shakespeare to advertising.

At the time, reviewing that speech, I noted the rhetorical technique: "By escalating criticism, he knocked down a straw man, the oldest speechifying trick in the book".

The Bush rhetorical technique -- of implying one thing while doing quite another -- was first honed to perfection in the speech handing down the great stem-cell "compromise" of summer 2001.