Homework Help: English

Posted by Mario on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 3:37pm.

what is the rhetorical strategy used in this parapgraph and what is the effect/function. Please quote the sentence of where the rhetorical strategy is used.

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If a Mongolian restaurant seems exotic to us in Evanston, Ill., it only follows that a McDonald's would seem equally exotic in Ulan Bator -- or, at least, equally far from everything expected. Though it's fashionable nowadays to draw a distinction between the "tourist" and the "traveler," perhaps the real distinction lies between those who leave their assumptions at home, and those who don't: Among those who don't, a tourist is just someone who complains, "Nothing here is the way it is at home," while a traveler is one who grumbles, "Everything here is the same as it is in Cairo -- or Cuzco or Kathmandu." It's all very much the same.

English - Jack, Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 3:38pm
what is the rhetorical strategy used in this parapgraph and what is the effect/function. Please quote the sentence of where the rhetorical strategy is used.

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But for the rest of us, the sovereign freedom of traveling comes from the fact that it whirls you around and turns you upside down, and stands everything you took for granted on its head. If a diploma can famously be a passport (to a journey through hard realism), a passport can be a diploma (for a crash course in cultural relativism). And the first lesson we learn on the road, whether we like it or not, is how provisional and provincial are the things we imagine to be universal. When you go to North Korea, for example, you really do feel as if you've landed on a different planet -- and the North Koreans doubtless feel that they're being visited by an extra-terrestrial, too (or else they simply assume that you, as they do, receive orders every morning from the Central Committee on what clothes to wear and what route to use when walking to work, and you, as they do, have loudspeakers in your bedroom broadcasting propaganda every morning at dawn, and you, as they do, have your radios fixed so as to receive only a single channel).
English - Writeacher, Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 3:40pm
Mario/Jack/whoever - Please don't switch names. It's not necessary.

Here's a whole bunch of rhetorical devices:
http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html

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