Analysis of a Figure of Speech
November, 2013

Johnson C. Montgomery, the author of The Island of Plenty, uses many figures of speech in the article to support his opinion. Lots of different rhetorical devices are used such as comparison and repetition. In passage 8, author mainly uses the comparison which is a rhetorical strategy and method of organization in which a writer examines similarities or differences between two things. The article says that future of the world need children; however, there are some preconditions. ‘But it is with the nourished, educated, and loved children. It is not with the...

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