Evaluating Rhetorical Effectiveness in Plato's Republic and Shelley's "Defense of Poetry"

This rhetorical analysis pits Plato's The Republic against Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Defense of Poetry" to examine the effectiveness of each writer's various rhetorical devices in their discussion about art and creation. The student finds Plato's use of metaphor and Socratic form to be stronger than Shelley's metaphors, analogies, and meandering sentence structure.
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