Rhetorical Questions In America The Great By Elie Wiesel

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Rhetorical questions are used for dramatic effect so that a speaker or writer can grasp the audience's attention and provoke emotion. I believe that this is exactly what Wiesel accomplished when he used them. It's not only to get the audience to reflect on America's past mistakes, but to also , make the audience open their minds so that they finally realize that if they don't change now then the future is in danger. Wiesel did not hold back when he described the harsh reality that the suffering truly live in. He dropped this enormous bomb of truth to the people that America the Great, has not been so great. They have been indifferent to the world's suffering just as they had been those years ago. The questions are used as a final attempt to
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