On Emerson Rhetorical Devices

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Lanerie, Katherine Anne
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11/3/2016
“On Emerson”

Before we get started I would like to point out how Ralph Waldo Emerson looks like Bill Nye’s long lost brother. Emerson’s essay “On Education” uses many rhetorical devices including analogies,and often poses rhetorical questions. Emerson disest the education system and addresses its flaws. Emerson poses his personal ideas as how to fix these problems.
One of Emerson’s “striking” analogies compares the school ( a place for education) to court (a place for punishment) and states that corporal punishment should not be allowed in schools (Did you get the joke?). This is evident when he says the teacher “knows as much vice as the judge of a police court.” courts are
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