Rhetorical devices

Rhetorical questions

In Jennifer L. Eberhardt’s TED talk “How racial bias works – and how to disrupt it”, the sender argues for her views using rhetorical questions. 

Eberhardt asks a series of rhetorical questions when she talks about how police departments do not use the footage from police body-worn cameras to find issues with racial bias: “How does a routine stop turn into a deadly encounter? How did this happen in George Floyd’s case? How did it happen in others?” (ll. 88-89). In this example, Eberhardt uses rhetorical questions to highlight all the information that can be gained from examining the footage from cameras. In this way, she argues her view that the police should use the available resources to recognize and address racial bias. 

Also, Eberhardt uses the rhetorical question “So what can we do?” (l. 41) t...