Need Help on Rhetorical Device Define: Polemical

[LunaHydreigon]

I got a few days left before I get to know if I have AP English for the first semester, but people I've talked to do not know much about the word Polemical, well, how to make a sentence of the rhetorical device. And I need help about it, could anyone help? Thank you!

-I really don't know where this thread actually goes. o3o-

[Startedraining]

Does this help?

po·lem·i·cal
pəˈlemək(ə)l/
adjective
adjective: polemical
of, relating to, or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech.
"a polemical essay"
synonyms: critical, hostile, bitter, polemic, virulent, vitriolic, venomous, caustic, trenchant, cutting, acerbic, sardonic, sarcastic, scathing, sharp, incisive, devastating
"the first of his polemical essays against modernism"

[LunaHydreigon]

Does this help?

po·lem·i·cal
pəˈlemək(ə)l/
adjective
adjective: polemical
of, relating to, or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech.
"a polemical essay"
synonyms: critical, hostile, bitter, polemic, virulent, vitriolic, venomous, caustic, trenchant, cutting, acerbic, sardonic, sarcastic, scathing, sharp, incisive, devastating
"the first of his polemical essays against modernism"

Sadly no. >n< What I'm looking for is like these. These are 14 of the 25 rhetorical words with examples I made pictures of for studying.

[Tekla]

Being unfamiliar with it myself, I did some googling, and this is the most helpful link I found:

http://portal.utpa.edu/utpa_main/daa_ho ... l_argument

When most people hear the word argument, they immediately think about political debates or disagreements with friends or colleagues over any number of issues, both trivial and significant. These kinds of arguments are polemic arguments. They involve individuals or groups who have a vested interest in the outcome. Often, the people involved in polemic arguments are trying to convince someone else to do something (in a political debate, politicians are trying to convince you to vote for them) or persuade someone that the cause or idea they are advocating is the right (the same politicians often try to persuade voters that the policies they advocate will solve the nation's problems and that the policies of the other party will make things worse.) Polemic arguments are thus advocacy arguments. People engaged in polemic arguments make no pretense at objectivity. Some examples of polemic/advocacy arguments are

The arguments made by the prosecutor and defense lawyer in a trial;
The bumper sticker showing a fetus with the caption: “Life is not a choice!”;
Televised election debates;
The op/ed page in the newspaper; and
Even some arguments in history, such as those put forward by Holocaust deniers, are more polemic than historical.

[LunaHydreigon]

Ah I see! Thanks! I think I got it now! ^^