An effective orator uses four important devices to get his point across: rhetorical questions, restatement, repetition, and parallelism. ... - (Henry 118) these are all examples of rhetorical questions. ... Henry also mentions the use of imagery, metaphors, as well as biblical allusions. ... If you cannot understand the message in a biblical allusion it is not effective. ... Biblical Allusion: "Let everyone fly out of Sodom- (Edwards 77). ...

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Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and rhetorical devices that it possesses such as simile, metaphor, imagery and many more. ... Allusion is a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. ... Flashback is a device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction. ... Style is the manner of expression of a particular writer, produced by choice of words, grammatical structures, use of literary devices, and all the pos...

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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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