Rhetorical techniques (3)

Question 1

What is humanity, if not an impending trainwreck?

What type of rhetorical technique is this?

Answer 1

Rhetorical question: Questions in which the answer is obviously implied.

[Achieves an effect}:
- audience pauses for thought

Question 2

This is impossible, and what I mean by ‘impossible’ is that this is never going to happen in the future of mankind and beyond.

What type of rhetorical technique is this?

Answer 2

Distinctio: Elaborates on the meaning of the word so that there is no ambiguity in its meaning

[Achieves an effect}:

• definitive
• clinical

Question 3

Like parents take responsibility for the acts of their children, governments should take responsibility for their state and territory governments similarly.

What type of rhetorical technique is this?

Answer 3

Analogy: compares two things, by taking one well known thing, and comparing it to a lesser known, or point currently being argued.

[Achieves an effect}:
- very varied

Question 4

He is a true Moses of the modern century

What type of rhetocial technique is this?

Answer 4

Eponym: Substituting an attribute/s with the name of a famous person known for that attribute/s.

[Achieves an effect]
- very varied