A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Onion

Advertising is a multi billion-dollar industry. Ads are constantly viewed on televisions, read in magazines, and heard on radios as ways to hook the attention of target audiences. Ads are designed to capture the interest of a specific audience. Grasping the attention of a specific audience is to ensure the best sales for the company’s products. One tactic that Pedigree exhibits in their ads is humor. In the Pedigree ad, a flower is skewered into a pug’s rectum. Not only is it eye catching, but also amusing to a comical audience. A competing company, Nutripro uses irony as a technique to catch an audience’s attention by displaying a plump dog that catches his mate cheating with another dog. Ethos, pathos,

People Magazine’s audience comprises of mostly women, and the articles and advertisements within the magazine prove this. Such types of passages consist primarily of gossip, however, there are some informational reads in the magazine. One advertisement in the September 18 issue of this year is a safety message from Tide. While the advertisement is a safety message, it is obviously still trying to sell the product: Tide PODS. The target audience of this advertisement is more specific than People Magazine; instead of only targeting women, Tide narrows its audience down to parents. Tide's advertisement uses some pathos, but it heavily draws its appeals from ethos.

Do you have sore feet and feel like there is nothing that can stop or prevent your foot pain? MagnaSoles are new shoe inserts for people just like you who have sore feet! Did you fall for these tactics? Companies use these marketing tactics everyday to convince people just like you to buy their product. In The Onion’s press release, the author demonstrates the use of the rhetorical triangle, bold diction and syntax, and vivid imagery to explain how Americans fall for marketing tactics companies use.

In the short play A Raisin in the sun conflict’s both internal and external occure for in three of the main characters regarding their dreams. When the opportunity came for them to accomplish their dreams through using the insurance money they’ve come across from the loss of a family member, one of the main characters, Walter, wishes to be successful in life; but he needs the insurance money to do so. He wants to use the insurance money to open up a liquor store because he believes this would change his life. A exceptional quote that shows his determination to be successful in life is when he speaks to Ruth “You tired, ain’t you? Tired of everything. Me, the boy. The way we live-this beat up hole-everything”(

Studies show that there the word gullible written on the ceiling above. In the article, The Onion, the writer talks about how people are gullible and fall for commercials. In the article the author used certain rhetoric devices that other commercials would use to make their product to seem legit. Barry, who wrote a mock press release that was published by The Onion claims that people who fall for ridicules commercials are fools by using ethos, imagery, and pathos.

In the article “Requiem for Real News” written by Chris Hedges, Hedges makes an argument that society is losing expertise with the news now changing from print to online. The change from print to online is also causing a change in what is deemed news. Upon first look on this article, this argument seems to be effective; however, the argument is not effective. While Hedges has some strong pieces of pathos like when provoking anger in the audience of the working men and women towards corporations and use of cause and effect strategy, extended definitions, and comparisons to logically make an argument that corporations want the public to be in the blind, Hedges fails to present enough ethos to back up his argument which ultimately causes his article to become an ineffective argument.

The author produced a parody of shoe sole insert companies who want to sell their product. Products are marketed to consumers by elaborating

When you think of America, you probably think about the money, food, “The American Dream”, but that’s not close to what it really is like. In Childish Gambino’s newest video “This Is America”, he addresses the depths of how Americans act. Childish Gambino’s real name is Donald Glover and he is a singer/songwriter. He is also an actor, he will be starring in “Solo: A Star Wars Movie” and starred in Spider-man: Homecoming. This is an important video because he subtly hints at how americans react to gun violence and how there is inequality for African Americans.

Firstly, it can be argued that the prevalence of socially accepted patriarchal credo in the novella ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ attributes to the manifestation of the narrator’s mental breakdown. This is particularly evident through the narrator’s intimate stream of consciousness in which she aligns the reader to her sense of resignation towards patriarchal rule; ‘John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage’. The narrator’s use of the phrase ‘of course’ reinforces her sense of expectation in that she is an object of ridicule and aptly illustrates the relative powerlessness of women as a result of intransigent, patriarchal dogma. Perkins Gilman creates a subtle ironic tone within the novella through the female voice’s inability to challenge the ideology of the men who are closest to her, significantly her

In the Onion’s article consumers are being very gullible when it comes to purchasing the soles and the capability that the soles have to heal their serious injuries. Dr. Bunt in the article is claiming that the soles are unlike any other soles sold on the market, because they allegedly held special healing powers and properties. “What makes MagnaSoles different from other insoles is the way they harness the power of magnetism...align the biomagnetic field.” A lot of the words Dr. Bunt, who invented the MagnaSoles, is using are big sophisticated important sounding words that basically don’t even relate to anything they are talking about and describing. But at the same time exaggerated and falsified claims and what the soles can do as you walk. The other doctor in the article who "discovered" terranometry gives facts relating to how the soles work so efficiently and effectively with the Earth that he supports Dr. Bunt's claims.

In the article, The Onion writes an article about a product called MagnaSoles that they advertise as a good product with statements from scientists. The Onion uses satire to show how easy it is to sell a product by putting science behind its name.

On their website, they refer to themselves as the Truth because they keep it real. This peculiar campaign caught my attention due to the unusual color choice and rhetorical sense of humor. The mission of the Truth is to inform millennials that we can be the generation to end the use of smoking altogether. Just the concept of this idea has been mindblown, since they address to a whole generation of approximately, 75.4 million people. Nonetheless, the website they use to direct their attention to our generation provides manifold of data illustrating the impact they have done with rhetorical appeals, whether their audience uses tobacco or

In this collection of facts and opinions we have been over the ways companies have tricked the populace into believing false facts such as the health benefits of bread. As well as the terrifying way advertisements, could flip a person’s viewpoint. Though the people must not forget that even advertisements have prayed on emotions to push more products. The pros of advertisement

Herbert of coca-Cola utilizes ethos, logos, and a professional tone to create a reasonable argument, Mr. Seaver of Grove Press ultimately outshines it through his proficient use of irony and satire. Despite the fact that Mr. Herbert assumes a more logical stance on the issue, Mr. Seaver utilizes wit and quick thinking to respond to Mer. Herbert’s argument and to make an overall more persuasive argument Through insidious mockery and audacious insincerity, Mr. Seaver makes Mr. Hert’s previously sound and genial argument appear insignificant and fallacious, proving that occasionally wit and sarcasm do supersede

In the humorous piece by The Onion, the writer of it satirizes and mocks commercials aimed at people who suffer from some kind of pain/medical issue. It takes the common themes that run through many of these kinds of advertisements and the continuing strategies employed by the creators of it. They target how products are marketed to consumers through the use of pseudo intellectual jargon, the exaggerated stores . the durability of their consumers , as well as the leaps in logic among them. They use all of these strategies in the piece, but exemplify the flaws within them, through a mix of irony, sarcasm. And contrast, in ofer to put it into a far more comedic light