Irony and the Like
Rhetoric is an invaluable tool in persuasion. Devised by ancient philosophers as a way to control the unruly mob they encountered when pleading for public or private causes, this field introduces students to the considerations that surround the construction of arguments, the positioning of points, the elements of style, the techniques of elocution, and the art of memorization. A master in this field, a rhetorician, is someone who can invent arguments quickly, marshal them according to his audience’s disposition, clothes them with figures of speech and schemes, and delivers them with the attitude he needs to project, assisted only by a smattering of notes. If your lawyer has these qualities, then you can rely on him to win your cases, for example, your whiplash accident claim.
A good subject included in the study of Rhetoric as well involves the invention and application of jests. Many claimants, unaware that the courts do not merely encourage but positively demand respect, find out too late that jokes, witticisms, obscenities, and ironical statements are unwelcome and can even be a cause for being held in contempt. Although these techniques are effective outside the courts, particularly in our mass media, they are taboo in formal settings, such as courtly proceedings. If you have used them before to escape conflict, you cannot use them here because it will only worsen your position.
Examples of Parallelism
What is parallelism? In language studies, it is the orderly positioning of coordinate grammatical elements. Thus, adjectives should be paired with other adjectives, nouns with other nouns and so on. The final effect of this arrangement of material is that our works will receive grace, clarity, and elegance. These considerations may seem to be impertinent for people filing accident claims, such as a whiplash accident claim, but the irrelevance is only formal, not substantial. For the truth is that the orderly arrangement of our words also has a persuasive force.
Yes, words that follow close parallelism can convince more than those which are not, and as it is the conviction of the minds of the judges trying your case that you are after, then parallelism, as with all the other rhetorical strategies you can find and apply, will always be matters you should be concerned with. Why are paired words and thoughts more striking than those uttered or written loosely? The answer is that out minds are so constituted that it generally tends to like that which is orderly and rhythmic than that which is disorderly and cacophonous. The former sounds are peace-driven while the latter are usually portents of danger. A murmuring brook signals its safety with its silent whispers as the thunderous claps of the sky before raining signals danger, even death. The psychology is similar, though more subtle.
Rhetoric is an invaluable tool in persuasion. Devised by ancient philosophers as a way to control the unruly mob they encountered when pleading for public or private causes, this field introduces students to the considerations that surround the construction of arguments, the positioning of points, the elements of style, the techniques of elocution, and the art of memorization. A master in this field, a rhetorician, is someone who can invent arguments quickly, marshal them according to his audience’s disposition, clothes them with figures of speech and schemes, and delivers them with the attitude he needs to project, assisted only by a smattering of notes. If your lawyer has these qualities, then you can rely on him to win your cases, for example, your whiplash accident claim.
A good subject included in the study of Rhetoric as well involves the invention and application of jests. Many claimants, unaware that the courts do not merely encourage but positively demand respect, find out too late that jokes, witticisms, obscenities, and ironical statements are unwelcome and can even be a cause for being held in contempt. Although these techniques are effective outside the courts, particularly in our mass media, they are taboo in formal settings, such as courtly proceedings. If you have used them before to escape conflict, you cannot use them here because it will only worsen your position.
Examples of Parallelism
What is parallelism? In language studies, it is the orderly positioning of coordinate grammatical elements. Thus, adjectives should be paired with other adjectives, nouns with other nouns and so on. The final effect of this arrangement of material is that our works will receive grace, clarity, and elegance. These considerations may seem to be impertinent for people filing accident claims, such as a whiplash accident claim, but the irrelevance is only formal, not substantial. For the truth is that the orderly arrangement of our words also has a persuasive force.
Yes, words that follow close parallelism can convince more than those which are not, and as it is the conviction of the minds of the judges trying your case that you are after, then parallelism, as with all the other rhetorical strategies you can find and apply, will always be matters you should be concerned with. Why are paired words and thoughts more striking than those uttered or written loosely? The answer is that out minds are so constituted that it generally tends to like that which is orderly and rhythmic than that which is disorderly and cacophonous. The former sounds are peace-driven while the latter are usually portents of danger. A murmuring brook signals its safety with its silent whispers as the thunderous claps of the sky before raining signals danger, even death. The psychology is similar, though more subtle.
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