Rhetorical devices

Personal anecdotes

In his article “End all immigration controls – they’re a sign we value money more than people”, Gary Younge uses anecdotes as rhetorical devices. One anecdote relates to a trip in his teenage years. He presents his first encounter with the Berlin Wall and the effects it had on him “As we toured the city over 10 days, we would keep butting into this grotesque cold war installation blocking our way, and butting up against my 14-year-old’s defence of socialism” (ll. 2-4). Here, the Berlin Wall is used as an example of how politics can affect people’s freedom in a negative way through the creation of borders.

Another anecdote presents information about Younge’s family (ll. 36-40). He talks about his Barbados relatives being “scattered across the globe” (l. 39) and claims tha...