Rhetorical questions are questions that do not expect an answer. This technique should be familiar to you as you will have studied it at 3rd level. Use this guide to revise and check your ...
What is a rhetorical question?
A rhetorical question is a question asked to make a point, rather than get an answer. If you have ever been late, someone might say: 'What time do you call this?' This person doesn't want an ...
To read or not to read? Is that the question?
Sometimes books have such a pervasive cultural presence that it is always necessary to read them to have an idea about what they have to say.
What Are Three Rhetorical Purposes for Campaign Advertisements?
A thoughtful audience will appreciate rhetorical questions that are more than superficial. Think about who your core customer is, and choose the rhetorical approach for your campaign that best ...
Disability Rhetoric
Who owns and what constructs—what owns and who constructs—the disabled body? In order to assert thatallbodily rhetoric ismētis, these questions of power and agency must first (and continuously) be ...
A Rhetoric of Reflection
Now, a third generation of work in reflection is emerging.As mapped by the contributors toA Rhetoric of Reflection, this iteration of research and practice is taking up new questions in new sites of ...
Once a Nazi Party Favorite, This Piece of Music was recently Performed in Israel
Carl Orff’s ‘Carmen Burana’ was composed especially to suit the taste of Goebbels and Goering. With a new rendition being staged in Be’er Sheva, the question arises: Is it appropriate to perform it in ...
Ask Amy: I’m done with my overly flirtatious boyfriend and want a clean break. But what about our friends?
Woman worries over losing friends in their circle when she finally breaks off this on-again, off again romance ...
Commentary: Rhetoric a sign that democracy is unraveling
As a University of Texas at Austin communication scholar, I spent my professional career (1974-2019) teaching a course in argumentation and advocacy, and studying the role of argument in public ...
GOP senator on Trump: ‘There's no question that his rhetoric was reckless'
Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., discusses why he's inclined to vote to acquit, why former President Donald Trump did not incite violence and what steps are next if the Senate does not convict.
What's Ayelet Shaked's next move?
For Ayelet Shaked, conservatism is not just a political philosophy, her friends say, but a way of life. With the collapse of the coalition, will the now-outgoing interior minister rise above the contr ...
Ted Cruz’s rhetorical 'hate crime': Obama vet condemns race questions for Judge Jackson
to discuss the GOP's insistence questions about issues like Critical Race Theory were legitimate lines of inquiry and the double standard Judge Jackson faces as a Black woman nominated to the ...
