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Chapter 3 The 4 Levels of Rhetorical Devices Rhetoric involves choice of sounds and rhythm, words, sentence patterns, figures of speech, organization of paragraphs and composition, etc. This process can be broken down into four basic levels of options: Phonetic devices Lexical devices Syntactic devices Discoursal devices 3.1 Phonetic devices and prose rhythm 3.1.1 Introduction All languages have sound. Orators in ancient times knew how to use the sounds of their language for maximum rhetorical effect, and classical rhetoric had a number of sound devices based on the echoing or the rh