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The Pen And The Galpel Rhetorical Analysis

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The rhetorical device that is most relevant in The Pen and the Scalpel by Dr. Richard Selzer, is developing a voice. The two main ideas of the essay are married in the sixth paragraph. This short yet powerful paragraph brings the essay into a full circle, the essay is about how it is a struggle for a surgeon to also be a writer. The sixth paragraph begins with explaining how the art of writing and how surgery do not relate. As it progresses he uses great figurative language to compare, what is almost incomparable. He starts by calling them “celestial arts”. Celestial arts are divine and heavenly, their roots are traced back to the Greek gods. This insinuation shows the reader that there are few arts that relate as closely as these two do.

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