Is there an exit strategy? ... asks VJ Knutson
Is There An Exit Strategy?
Will you?
I pretend to listen feign interest I don’t really care what you have to say Do you? I attend events Dressed to the nine I don’t really care What the event is about Do you? I switch off when you talk repetition bores me of your limited intellect I can’t spare time Will you? I … Continue reading Will you?
“EXACTLY” ©J.E.Goldie Reena’s Exploration Challenge #120” – rhetoric – Feb. 2 2020
Exactly... by Jen Goldie
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #120 – The Rhetorical Question.
The Rhetorical Question ….. by Michael
The politician stood in front of his audience, delivered his address and then invited questions.
The first question asked about his government’s response to the current domestic crisis.
The politician listened to the question and gave himself a moment to consider his response before saying he took the question as a rhetorical one and didn’t feel the need to make any comment.
It was his standard response when asked something he either didn’t have an answer to or didn’t want to answer.
He turned his media conferences into meaningless exchanges in which he espoused his virtues and those of his government and ignored anything uncomfortable.
He discovered a sound way to protect himself, his rhetoric in reply, to what he considered a rhetorical question. Always delivered with the smugness of a seasoned politician.
Written for: https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/reenas-exploration-challenge-120/
Dreaded
dreaded adolescencegrowing up, not grown upenough to make my decisions-Limbo https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/sunday-writing-prompt-limbo/
Voyeurism
Vacations come alive with Grandpa’s stories. A nugget emerged on the morning walk with him today. “You guys have lost earning opportunities with the advent of the internet.” “I can teach you how to earn money online. We’ll do it in the afternoon.” “I’ll tell you something right now. I used to come and check … Continue reading Voyeurism
Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 120
Sadje’s take on Exploration Challenge #120…
Reenais the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge.
Reena’s Exploration Challenge
Welcome back to this space, friends!
PROMPT
The theme this week is
RHETORICAL QUESTION
Use the words in your piece, allude to it in some way, or include the figure of speech in your writing.
Have a ball! Can writers write?
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There are so many unnecessary things that we say in a day. Asking futile questions and making observations, starting the obvious. Some people are kind and do answer these rhetoricalquestions and reply to our statements which can only be answered by a yes. While there are others who can never resist to make a joke out of it.
With keys and a purse in your hands, you are headed out the door when your kid or husband would say, “Are you going out?”
“No, I was just getting a glass of water from the kitchen”
“But…
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It’s Me
It's not Alice. That's my face peeping back at me— reflecting the desire to hide, shirk reality. It cannot be my head - the one I held high, so high that others wished to chop it off. Do they still want it, or are gloating with satisfaction? Deceit mangles the psyche. Something that I did … Continue reading It’s Me
Restart
The wind cut into his skin and grey skies pressed down on the rotting town, but at least he was home. The town changed a little every time he returned, but change was irreversible this time around. An earthquake had destroyed everything, including his parents’ house. His mother had survived, being pulled out in time … Continue reading Restart
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #120 — teaching through…
teaching through…. by Jade Li/Lisa. Don’t miss the haunting image, when you focus on insightful words.
Every person who writes and shares their writing with others is selling a point of view, so in that sense, every blogger/author/social media poster is well-versed in rhetoric. Rhetoric isn’t new. It’s been around since before the written word, when prehistoric humans sat around fires and told stories. I wonder if hieroglyphs on cave walls contained rhetoric? Hey, isn’t that a rhetorical question?
In the electronic age, we are inundated with rhetoric. I feel like I’m drowning in it. Where are the islands to rest in this swarming sea? I would say graphical art is one place, even though much of it springs from the politics of the artist. Poetry can also be very political. Nature is respite when a subject of any creative expression. Do you think that nature art/writing/poetry can contain rhetoric? I think it is more than a rhetorical question. The answer is a resounding yes. An…
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