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Rhetorical Devices
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Rhetorical Devices 

expressive stylistic locutions that are historically evolved means of organizing a sentence and that utilize chiefly the emotional and imperative qualities of speech; an obsolete term for figures of speech. In a narrow sense, the term applies to three figures of speech: rhetorical exclamation, rhetorical appeal, and rhetorical question (a statement in the form of a question).
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