Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:"Would you want to appoint my opponent as president of your company?"-The late Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, speaking to a group of Philippine businessmen about his 1986 election opponent, Corazon Aquino

What will be an ideal response?


Innuendo based on a form of rhetorical comparison.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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John rawls thinks that patterned principles of distributive justice involve appropriating the actions of other persons... we need to move away from the classical liberal notion

a. true b. false

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Whom does Malachi identify as Yahweh's messenger, who will bring warning of the Day of Judgment?

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