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by RegEx 4696 days ago
Students in AP English in the US get to analyze rhetoric like this. I remember this as one of my favorite passages.
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Same here. The teacher thought I was the Second Coming because I pointed out that the response involved a strawman (the bit about "people won't think our books are soda!"). Nowadays that's a trivial thing to notice.