Category: Rhetorical Question

Sunday Bloody Sunday: The Bloodshed of 1972 and it’s Legacy U2 lead singer Bono in the song, Sunday Bloody Sunday (1983), condemns the violence caused by the Troubles, implying that the bloodshed has gone on for too long. Bono supports his condemnation by using poetic devices, such as rhetorical questions, repetition, and a war motif…

In Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet, the intense conflict between the families of the Montagues and Capulets illustrates the theme of internal conflict present throughout the play. It is this conflict that led to the downfall of Romeo and Juliets relationship and their inevitable death. In the play, Shakespeare uses a rhetorical question when Juliet…

Wilfred Owens poetry ensures that the poems always remain relevance in society today as conflict through war is still taking lives causing loss and grief uses the empathy of the solider suffering at war to encourage engagement from the readers through the dehumanising ways, and the irreconcilable mourning to demonstrate the intense consequences of war…