Throughout the year we've learned different literary and rhetorical devices. These devices have assisted my ideas and enriched my writing. Since the beginning of the year, my writing has progressed tremendously, from the different types of genres we have been taught to write. In my essays, I have added a few devices, but from all of these, imagery has been one of my favorite to use. I selected a piece of writing where I used several imagery examples. In the “Death Forest”, one of my writings, I included
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Rhetorical Analysis of the Onondaga Dragway Chelsea Cox Baker College October 26, 2013 102 Composition Rhetorical Analysis of the Onondaga Dragway Is the Onondaga Dragway ruining its residents’ right to live peacefully? Many argue that the answer is “yes.” Onondaga is home to nearly 3,000 residents and is nestled between Lansing and Jackson County ("Onondaga Township, Ingham, 2013). The Onondaga Dragway closed its doors in 1978, and sat abandoned for more than thirty five years due to
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Pro Interracial Adoption Rhetorical Analysis Adoption can intersect with race to create the controversial issue of interracial adoption, which is children and parents entering an adoptive relationship while being of differing racial backgrounds. Many people involved in the adoption process, (eg. parents, agencies, non-profit organizations) have shared their viewpoints on this topic, including adoptees themselves. When discussing interracial adoption, supporters tend to appeal to their audience
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work in brutal conditioned cotton & textile mills. Florence Kelley is a woman who is strongly against child labor due to the unjust circumstances given to the young children. To help to emphasize the problem of child labor, Florence Kelley uses rhetorical devices, such as first person view, pathos, amplification Florence Kelley, a former social worker and reformer explains that the United States has two million children under the age of sixteen working. She grabs the reader's attention by stating
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your death just think about that for a minute. They used Pathos. When I read I felt emotion like how they probably did at the time. When the people in the crowd heard this speech I think that they might have cried or felt a sad emotion. For the Rhetorical appeal I choose Weasel Words. I chose this because it means to suggest a positive meaning without actually really making any guarantees. I believe is what this Quote is saying.
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limited time on this Earth, humans are faced with the inescapable and inevitable subject of death. In the essay “The Death of a Moth”, by Virginia Woolf, the author depicts the struggle of life and death as an impossible battle to win. Woolf utilizes rhetorical devices such as tone, diction, structure, and imagery to convey this message and invoke the feeling of pity and despair in her reader. As the tone shifts throughout the piece, Woolf’s stylistic choices strengthen her tone and further support her
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Texts in advertisements for the performing arts often use rhetorical strategies to allude to certain elements of productions and appeal to specific target audiences. The official Gershwin website rightly calls the Gershwin brothers the “songwriting team whose voice was synonymous with the sounds and style of the Jazz Age” ("The Gershwin Brothers"). George Gershwin, praised by Encyclopedia Britannica as one of the “most significant and popular American composers of all time,” rivalling Copland and
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As stated in Bizter The Rhetorical Situation essay the Audience “consists only of those persons who are cap- able of being influenced by discourse and of being mediators of change.” The audience that Malcolm X is addressing in his speech are black people, because he specifically called on them to make changes. “Mr. Moderator, Reverend Cleage, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, and friends and I see some enemies.” Despite acknowledging that some 'enemies' were present, the 'enemies' he referred
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those in need through nonviolent means. This applied to him personally as he was doing just that to support his cause, uniting farm workers to gain better rights. In order to convey his point and advocate for nonviolence, Chavez uses three main rhetorical devices which are repetition, the black and white fallacy, and allusions to respected figures. To begin with, at the start of the article in the 3rd paragraph, Chavez uses repetition of the word nonviolence, each time following the word with the
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did it peacefully, southerners set dogs, used fire hoses and locked them up in jail. Martin Luther King saw what he need to do so he wrote a speech for his march to Washington. He called it, I Had A Dream. In this speech he used the power of the rhetorical devices such as repetition, diction and tone to convey that people often cast judgments based on outside appearances and as a result they disown people before they even get to know them. King
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