Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:A political endorsement by the Reverend Jerry Falwell, the high priest of holier-than-thou and "let's hear it for apartheid," would help a political candidate as much as an endorsement from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
What will be an ideal response?
"Holier-than-thou" is a clichéd slanter; and the "let's hear it for apartheid" epithet is a jeer, regardless of the fact that Falwell supported apartheid in South Africa. The whole is, of course, a rhetorical comparison.
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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Every ingredient in this new drink concoction is highly alcoholic. Therefore, the drink is highly alcoholic
A) No fallacy. B) Begging the question. C) Composition. D) Hasty generalization. E) Division.
The view that holds that there are no universally valid moral principles, but that such principles are human inventions, is
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In Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible (excerpt), Price's daughter Leah…
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