In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the rhetorical device in which a part stands for the whole. |
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A similar rhetorical device is used to make numbers of weapons appear shocking. |
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Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry? |
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This, she shows, is a rhetorical device, with no implication that the dead can actually communicate. |
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Unlike Goodman, he stopped short of action by private individuals, but this may have been a rhetorical device. |
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Within the substitutional mode, anachronism was neither an aberration nor a mere rhetorical device, but a structural condition of artifacts. |
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He also engages in that time-tested rhetorical device, the ad hominem attack, through an anastrophe. |
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Kaufman has trumped this by going for an unpronounceable abstract noun denoting a classical rhetorical device. |
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Folks, for many decades this same rhetorical device, this blaming, very much suited the interests of British Columbia politicians as well. |
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The term 'rights' is used loosely in ordinary speech, usually as a rhetorical device to assert a claim. |
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The phrase appears to make use of a deliberate rhetorical device known as pleonasm, a crafted redundancy that plays out the search for the most fitting expression. |
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A more rhetorical device, at times productive of uncertainty, is the sequence of nominal phrases thrown out with no explanatory verb and capped with an exclamation mark. |
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Yet this has become more a rhetorical device than a guide to donor practice. |
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My challenge to him wasn't just a rhetorical device. |
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Aposiopesis is the particular rhetorical device employed by the poet to tell the reader that about which he could speak but will not. |
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It's a favourite, if grim, rhetorical device. |
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But, he told the police, it was a rhetorical device. |
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An unusual rhetorical device, hendiadys, appears in several places in the play. |
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You can apply that rhetorical device to anything. |
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What rhetorical device does the cartoonist use? |
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Public service is also a rhetorical device. |
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What we have here is a rhetorical device that is part of, or to be seen as a stage in, the process towards unified decisions in the fields of policing, the law and criminal investigation. |
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As a rhetorical device, the term is mostly positive but quite abstract. |
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According to Lawrence Stone, narrative has traditionally been the main rhetorical device used by historians. |
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This is a common rhetorical device used to create an implication of significance where one may not actually be present. |
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