Question 1

Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:
"Early in the third phase of the Vietnam War the U.S.command recognized that the term 'search and destroy' had unfortunately become associated with 'aimless searches in the jungle and the destruction of property.' In April 1968 General Westmoreland therefore directed that the use of the term be discontinued.Operations thereafter were defined and discussed in basic military terms which described the type of operation,for example,reconnaissance in force."
-Lieutenant General John H.Hay,Jr. ,Vietnam Studies

Accepted Answer

Euphemism.

Question 2

Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:
Perhaps the "religious leaders" who testified at the state board of education's public hearing on textbooks think they speak for all Christians,but they do not.

Accepted Answer

Note especially how quotation marks around "religious leaders" serves to question the credentials of those individuals.

Question 3

Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:
"The Soviet regime [once] promulgated a law providing fines for motorists who alter their lights or grills or otherwise make their cars distinguishable.A regime that makes it a crime to personalize a car is apt to make it a crime to transmit a cultural heritage."
-George Will

Accepted Answer

A rhetorical comparison.

Question 4

Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:
Handguns are made only for the purpose of killing people.

Accepted Answer