Question

Which of the following best describes a rhetorical device?

a.) a technique used in writing or speaking that is intended to persuade

b.)a technique that employs fallacies to confuse or convince the reader

c.)metaphors, fallacies, persuasion, and pathos but not logos

d.)a technique intended to manipulate the reader into believing things that are not true

e.)none of the above

Answer 1

A rhetorical device is a technique used in writing or speaking that is intended to persuade. Examples of these are: logos, pathos, ethos, metaphors, irony, etc.