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1. How does Obama create a relationship with his audience through rhetorical devices ?

1. How does Obama create a relationship with his audience through rhetorical devices ? 2. How does Obama take advantage of repetition in his speech ? 3. What are the effects of the ways in which Obama employs the word “we”?.

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1. How does Obama create a relationship with his audience through rhetorical devices ?

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  1. 1. How does Obama create a relationship with his audience through rhetorical devices? 2. How does Obama take advantage of repetition in his speech? 3. What are the effects of the ways in which Obama employs the word “we”?

  2. 1. How do Kincaid’s schemes of repetition (anaphora, balanced sentences, parallelism) create and sustain the relationship between speaker and audience? 2. What transitions deviate/move away from the patterns of repetition listed above? How do the different segments of “Girl” work together? 3. Define the role of questions in this piece.

  3. 1. How does Mairs manipulate sentence length to amplify the ideas in those sentences? 2. How does Mairs incorporate balanced pairs, polysyndeton, and asyndeton into her piece? 3. What relationship does Mairs build with her audience? How can you tell?

  4. 1. How does Kingston manipulate sentence structures to build her relationship with the quiet one?   2. How does repetition impact these excerpts? 3. How does Kingston manipulate sentence length, and how does this manipulation reflect on her larger themes/concerns in these excerpts?

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