The Use of Rhetorical Devices in the Writings of Arab High School Students

Adel Fouzi Shakour

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The Use of Rhetorical Devices in the Writings of Arab High School Students

Adel Fouzi Shakour

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 2, Issue 6)

Received: 5 December 2014 Accepted: 17 December 2014 Published: 23 December 2014

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The article analyzed the rhetorical devices used by Arab high school students when writing in Arabic. Professor Rachel Landau's book The Rhetoric of Parliamentary Speeches in Israel, Tel Aviv, Eked, 1988 provided the reference for the analysis. Landau applied Western rhetorical criteria and concepts to the analysis of Israeli political rhetorical style. We can justifiably also apply Western standards to Arabic rhetoric since rhetorical style is an independent literary genre beyond the linguistic structure of any language, and as such is supranational. Landau adopts the stylistic-rhetorical approach to the study of rhetoric, which includes rhetorical registers that generally operate on the emotions and rhetorical argumentation, which includes registers that generally address the reason.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 2, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20140206.20
Page(s)	403-414
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rhetorical Devices, Arab Students, High School, Writing in Arabic

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Department of Hebrew Language and Literature, Al-Qasemi - Academic College of Education, P.O.B 124, 30100 Baqa El-Garbia

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