Prompt: After two weeks of studying rhetorical devices, types of rhetoric, and methods for identifying rhetorical techniques, which rhetorical device do you find most effective or compelling, and why?

 Prompt: After two weeks of studying rhetorical devices, types of rhetoric, and methods for identifying rhetorical techniques, which rhetorical device do you find most effective or compelling, and why?



The most effective type of rhetoric, I think, would be a hypophora because you ask a question, then you immediately give your postion and you explain why it's right 


Not in class for summary and reflection

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