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rhetorical device

technique that an author or speaker uses with the goal of persuading
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rhetorical device

Summary

rhetorical device ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (30 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • rhetorical device's subclass of is recorded as technique[2].
  • rhetorical device's part of is recorded as rhetoric[3].
  • rhetorical device's Commons category is recorded as Rhetorical techniques[4].
  • rhetorical device's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01g6df[5].
  • rhetorical device's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Rhetorical techniques[6].
  • rhetorical device's BabelNet ID is recorded as 14274763n[7].
  • rhetorical device's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as rhetorical-devices[8].
  • rhetorical device's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 62291451[9].
  • rhetorical device's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C62291451[10].

Why It Matters

rhetorical device ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (30 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

rhetoric

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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