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high-frequency chengyu meaning “it is well-known that…” or “everybody knows that…”. It is a favourite rhetorical device of high school students when introducing arguments in essays. It can also sometimes have a negative connotation...

the rhetorical centerpiece of former President Donald Trump’s presidential run, the Biden administration has invested in technology to get the job done, championing high-tech tools that officials say bring more humanity and efficiency...

the Greek word par?doxos, which means “beyond belief.” Oxymoron [ok-si-mawr-on, -mohr-] Similar to paradox, the rhetorical device oxymoron uses contradiction, but an oxymoron is more compressed than a paradox. An oxymoron is a figure...

four stanzas, the history teacher tried to keep his studentsˊ innocence by using the understatement as a rhetorical device when he taught historical violent events as less violent ones: the Spanish Inquisition, the War of the Roses, the...

aspects while praising the group’s general patriotic attitude. This distancing is empty, of course, a purely rhetorical device: the group is silently expected to act upon the implicit calls to violence Trump’s speeches are full of...

것이다. 운문체란 외형적인 운율(rhythm, beat)을 가지고 있는 문체를 의미한다. 이는 설득력을 위한 수사학적인 장치(rhetorical device for persuasion)라고 볼 수 있다. 이는 인지적인 것보다는 전인적인 설득력에 효력이 있다. 이러한 외형적 운율은...

historical development, structure and purpose of capitalism. Ultimately, this highly effective and elucidatory rhetorical device, expanding the most immediate and direct cause out to its logical endpoint, derives from Aristotelian logic...

메커니즘이며 사고 패턴(thinking patterns)이라는 것이다. 약간의 학술 용어를 동원하자면 메타포는 수사적 장치(rhetorical device)가 아니라, 인지 메커니즘(cognitive mechanism)이라고 할 수 있다. 예를 들어 다음 표현들을 보자. “크리스마스가...

경악) 플롯과 연결하기와 신화의 상징적 원형의 재활용, 문학 용어로는 문학 이론들로 독자를 설득하는 수사적 기교(a rhetorical device)의 요소 즉 아이러니, 풍자, 역설, 알레고리, 패로디, 부조리 등이다. 여기서 이상적인 작품에 환상의 낯설게 하기...