ABSTRACT
This chapter covers some of the more dramatic rhetorical devices, including rhetorical question, aporia, apophasis, and anacoluthon. A rhetorical question has an expected answer implied in the question itself. Aporia expresses doubt about a conclusion, fact, or issue. Apophasis mentions something while claiming not to mention it, as in, “I pass over the great need we have for additional water supplies, because the focus of this mission is disease control.” Anacoluthon is a grammatically broken sentence, with mismatched pieces, as in, “This will explain-well, we just don’t have time for that.” Style Check 15 discusses the levels of style, adding to the discussion from Chapter 12. Define Your Terms asks students to define each of the rhetorical devices discussed in the chapter and to provide their own examples of each one. It’s in the Cloud asks students to research and evaluate writing generators, online software apps that write essays and other texts. Salt and Pepper 15 asks students to find four of the attributed quotations throughout the book and research who the authors are. The students are then assigned the writing of a short biographical essays. The chapter ends with a Review Questions quiz and Questions for Thought and Discussion, asking students to think about some of the ideas discussed in the chapter.
