Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Rhetorical strategy used

The article Men are from Vengeance by William Saletan was about the punishments criminals get and how men and women agree or disagree with the actions. One major rhetorical strategy Saletan used was Repetition. In each paragraph the author followed an outline stating the poll, the result and the points the men and women varied by. This strategy was applied by the author to help the reader digest the information given. It made it easy to follow. The reader didn’t have to decipher individual paragraphs but just the facts. Without having to decide the author's format the reader was left with more time to absorb the actual meaning of the article and the information it presented For this type of subject matter Saletan did a good job of choosing the rhetorical strategy that got his point across.

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