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Rhetorical Architectures

LG209
Module 4: Building Persuasive Architecture
3 Lessons

Combining the fifteen figures into whole submissions with judgement, restraint and ethical care.

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Building Persuasive Architecture

1

Architecting a Submission: Placing Figures in Openings, Arguments and Closings

You will understand how to deploy the fifteen figures of speech strategically across the structure of a legal submission to create openings that command attention, arguments that build logically, and closings that lodge in judicial memory.

25 min
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2

Anchoring Judicial Memory with Figures in Oral Advocacy

You will understand how figures of speech create retention anchors in judicial memory, why repetition and structural parallelism make arguments stick, and how to deploy them ethically in real-time oral submissions.

25 min
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3

Restraint and Ethics: When Rhetoric Helps and When It Harms

You will understand how to deploy rhetorical figures with judicial integrity, recognising when persuasive technique serves justice and when it obscures truth or manipulates unfairly.

25 min
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Critical Questions