Las Casas and Rhetorical Strategies

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Las Casas and Rhetorical Strategies

• Components of oral and written speech in
  Greco-Roman world
• introduction (gives subject and purpose of the
  speech and establishes credibility)
• narrative
• the case (summary of what has happened so far
  and whats to come including the point that is
  being contested or demonstrated, points agreed on
  by both parties, points to be contested)
• the proof (logical arguments designed to
  confirm the case an appeal to the audiences
  reason)
• refutations of the case (answers
  counter-arguments)
• conclusion, drawing together of parts of the
  whole

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Las Casas and Rhetorical Strategies

• Amplification through use of rhetorical and
  literary devices
• adjuration (a solemn appeal)
• hyperbole,
• metaphors,
• similes, imagery,
• personification,
• irony,
• repetition
• rhetorical questions