Keep pressing onward as you search for creative ways to preach God’s word.
Building Illustrations with Rhetorical Devices
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Keep pressing onward as you search for creative ways to preach God’s word.
Have you ever been in this situation? You are pressed for an illustration but unable to find what you are looking for in a story. The functional element of illustration has typically been synonymous with anecdotes. Your objective is to find a story that fits the explanation of the point, but other options besides anecdotes are available. In this article, I will look at building natural analogies, and in a follow-up article I will develop illustrations using figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, personification, etc…