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The Purpose of Rhetoric

Liu Yan-zhuo

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There are rhetorical devices used in every person's talking,but why do we use that even if we are not writers? This paper tends to show that the purpose of doing rhetoric is superficially for making sentences or speeches beautiful,but by nature the rhetoric is for the goal in making one more outstanding among people in order to trade for something that normal speech behavior can not achieve.Using rhetorical devices is a human instinct.

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There are rhetorical devices used in every person's talking,but why do we use that even if we are not writers? This paper tends to show that the purpose of doing rhetoric is superficially for making sentences or speeches beautiful,but by nature the rhetoric is for the goal in making one more outstanding among people in order to trade for something that normal speech behavior can not achieve.Using rhetorical devices is a human instinct.

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There are rhetorical devices used in every person's talking,but why do we use that even if we are not writers? This paper tends to show that the purpose of doing rhetoric is superficially for making sentences or speeches beautiful,but by nature the rhetoric is for the goal in making one more outstanding among people in order to trade for something that normal speech behavior can not achieve.Using rhetorical devices is a human instinct.

Key concepts: Rhetoric, Rhetorical question, Instinct, Rhetorical device, Order (exchange), Linguistics, Psychology, Sociology

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