Rhetorical Devices

Choose one device from the Horn piece, find an example that you think illustrates this device, and write about why. If you can include the image in your blog, that’d be excellent.

This political cartoon best represents Horn's use of metaphor in a image with words. In the picture Bush, Cheney and Rumsfield are in a steam roller about to flatten the world. The steam roller is a metaphor for the vast amount of power these men have. And these men are going to use their power to push their neo-conservative ideals onto the world. The author thinks that this is going to have devastating effects in the world. We can now this, obviously, by the impending doom of the world with these men at the helm. Using these metaphors helped better make the author's point. The author's point is better made because people understand what a steam roller does, and that is flatten. Essentially, President Bush is going to flatten the world with his undesirable foreign policy.