Obama manages to give a reasonable speech that strongly focuses on his ethos and a little on pathos to properly respond to the criticism against his relationship to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and also uses this as a basis for pinpointing America's current issues, using several rhetorical devices, especially antithesis, to emphasize his arguments. ... Both of these phrases stand out in the text because Obama used a rhetorical device known as antithesis, which means that within each phrase they contain ideas that are opposite to each other, seen in black man and white woman, and in slaves a...

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Wespazjan Kochowski, the poet responsible for the Polish Baroque-style poem, A Curse on the Sons, of the Crown: Who Disrupt the Diets, expresses the negativity of Sarmatism with the literary devices of symbolism, metaphor, metonymy, imagery, personification, allusion, and simile. ... The first can be found in Line 1, when he asks a rhetorical question to the, "unheeding sons". ... The book of life is an allusion to Christianity, in which God is believed to have recorded the names of everyone destined for Heaven. ... In conclusion, the negative impact of Sarmatism can be expresse...

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His speech contains several rhetorical devices which indicate his contradiction and insincere tone to the audience. ... The speech also consists of an allusion to understate the importance of his personal life and his actions "This has gone on too much, cost too much and hurt too many innocent people" being the president of any country is as much his personal problem as well as the American citizen's problem. ...

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