Rhetorical Devices In Much Ado About Nothing

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A rhetorical device is a language used to have an influence on its spectators. Metaphor, alliteration etc. are example of rhetorical device. This device are demonstrate throughout the books to Emphasis on what the character are trying to say. This can be seem in Shakespeare’s work. I’m going to be writing about a quote in Much Ado About Nothing using the rhetorical devices to help us better to interpret the conversation between Benedick and Don Pedro in Act 1 scene 1 lines

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