Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:"To Chico's wholesalers and retailers of pornography: do you honestly believe that pornography has no effect on the behavior of people?"-From an ad in the Chico Enterprise-Record
What will be an ideal response?
The phrase "do you honestly believe" is almost always used to refute without argument the claim that follows it. It isn't a type of slanter discussed in the text, though you might get away with calling it a proof surrogate.
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a. true b. false
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.