Rhetorical Devices In Margaret Thatcher's Eulogy To Ronald Regan

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Margaret Thatcher, ex-prime minister of the UK, uses many different rhetorical devices in her eulogy to Ronald Regan. She effectively employs many different strategies. They all help make her writing more powerful. Thatcher makes use of repetition at many different points throughout her writing. At one point starts a string of three different paragraphs with "others". In the 12th paragraph she starts every sentence with "Yet, he". The repetition helps her strengthen her eulogy about Ronald Regan. Next, Thatcher makes use of an anecdote. She mentions some personal experience with Regan at different points in his presidency and at diffenrent points in her writing. This helps make her and Regan look like real people, not heartless politicians.

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