Use Of Rhetorical Devices To Persuade The Audience

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A rhetorical device is a style that an author or the speaker uses to convey a meaning to the reader or listener with the objective of persuading him or her to consider a topic from different point of view.

Rhetorical devices may be used to enkindle emotions in the audience or for some other reasons. The main objective of rhetoric is to persuade the audience to a particular topic or course of action. Rhetorical devices are used to build sentence in such a way as to make the audience open through emotions and to provide a rational argument for the same topic or course of action.

Irony and Metaphor are two kind of rhetorical devices.

Irony in rhetoric is used by the author or speaker to convey to the reader or listener incongruousness and is often used as a tool of humor in order to deprecate an idea.

Metaphor is used in rhetoric so as to convey to the audience a new meaning by linking it to some existing idea which is familiar to the audience. By linking the new to the old meaning the person using ...
... metaphor makes the audience think that the new is related to the old and the familiar one.

Literature stimulates creativity as reading books introduces the reader to a completely new world. This is done by the use of descriptive language in which the reader tries to paint a picture in his or her mind of what he reads. Programs based on conversation tend to focus on formulas used in contextual situations, so there is no way for independent thought and adaption of language. Whereas programs based on literature focus on how the students have interpreted the language personally and this let students to experiment with the language.

There is no doubt that classroom teaching is based on the principles of Rhetoric. While Teaching Literature in the classrooms, good books should be chosen that students can relate to. Visual books can help in igniting the spark of interest in children and questions can be incorporated in between the reading for adult students.

Students should read aloud in the classrooms each day to encourage them to speak and improve their pronunciation. Mispronounced words should be noted and corrected by the teacher then and there. Questions should be asked in between the reading process to make students think. Maybe there will be only one answer or maybe none, but the process of thinking will start within the students and this will initiate learning.

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