Rhetorical Devices in the Views of Barbara Jordan Rhetorical devices are used in our everyday reading and writing. Unless you have learned about all of the different times of rhetorical devices, you might see these and not recognize them. In Becoming Educated Barbara Jordan expresses many of these devices. Some that may stick out or that were accurately used are, restatement along with asyndeton. Repetition is known as saying one element and then repeating it, saying it over. Frequently it used to expand and over explain something. From reading this small passage, you can plainly tell use repetition and it stands out. “I did not want my colleagues to know what a tough time I was having understanding the concepts, the words, the ideas, the
