Buzzfeed Rhetorical Devices

In “Lovely Stones” by Christopher Hitchens, the author uses rhetorical devices such as parallelism, ethos, and pathos to convince the audience to help conserve and protect ancient Athens’ statues. One of the rhetorical devices the author used was parallelism, he used it to give the article flow and more of a rhythm to follow through. The second rhetorical device the author used was ethos in the article to intrigue the readers ethics and rightness. The last rhetorical device the author used was pathos, he used pathos to pique the interest of the audience with emotional context. These rhetorical devices were used strategically to convince the readers to help support the cause.

Rhetorical devices are statements used to persuade an audience. Rhetorical devices, such as ethos, pathos, and logos, have been used effectively in advertisements for years. All rhetorical devices can persuade consumers to buy their products. AT&T’s “Close to Home” commercial effectively uses rhetorical devices, particularly pathos and ethos, to persuade consumers to not text and drive and to use AT&T.

The website my group choose to do our rhetorical analysis on is CNN. CNN stands for Cable News Network. CNN was founded by Ted Turner and 25 other members in 1980. CNN was originally a tv channel. CNN lasted from 1980-2003 on tv. In 9995 CNN was made into a website. The website attracted growing interest and is now one of the most popular news websites in the world. The widespread growth of blogs, social media and user-generated content have influenced the site.The website CNN helped us find the observations “(what)”, examples “(how)”, analysis “(why)” to rhetorical concepts. We figured out how to use the concepts and how not to use the concepts. The rhetorical concepts are audience, purpose, Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

The type of rhetorical text that I decided to analyze is a television ad. This ad is an anti-smoking ad titled “Last Dance”. This commercial features a family consisting of a mother, father, and son. It shows a family who has come to accept the tragic circumstances of not quitting smoking. In this case,

    The speaker is able to use three rhetorical devices, being ethos, logos, and pathos, when talking to the audience about the time she had spent

Rhetorical devices are devices that are used to convey a meaning to the reader and create emotions through different types of language. Elie Wiesel uses rhetorical devices such as personification, metaphors, and rhetorical questions to emphasize and establish the theme of losing faith.

Over the summer, we were asked to write a rhetorical analysis essay. I vividly remember reading the prompt and having no idea what to do. At the time, I had only a limited understanding of the words ethos, pathos, and logos, but somehow I managed to write a three page essay on the rhetoric of Cesar Chavez’s article. When we got back from summer vacation, we learned more about how to write a rhetorical analysis. We learned about SOAPStone, which stands for speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and tone. I applied my knowledge of SOAPStone to analyzing “Two Ways of Seeing a River” and “To My Old Master”. Through SOAPStone, I was able to easily develop an introduction to my rhetorical analysis essays. Next up was learning how to identify rhetorical devices. Through reading Robert F. Kennedy’s

 The video uses logos by saying that the IPhone 4s has 8 megapixels and all new optics which makes it more than the leading competition.

Many authors use rhetorical devices and strategies to get their point across and try to convince the reader to believe in their perspective. It can also be used to get emotions from its readers, but that isn’t really the whole point of persuading someone. For instance, Martin Luther King Jr. uses an abundance of pathos in order to make the reader or clergymen feel sympathy towards the black people. Along with pathos, he uses logos and a bundle of hypophora. In order to obtain the goal of persuasion, Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter contains rhetorical devices.

In Literature, rhetorical devices are often used to place emphasis on certain ideas or descriptions, to make an idea clearer, or to provide insight and to smoothly relate topics. Throughout his collection of essays, Scott Russell Sanders utilizes rhetorical devices in order to make his statements and ideas more vivid and clear for the reader. The rhetorical devices offer a more descriptive and insightful look into Sanders’ thoughts on his childhood, personality, and view of the world around him. Throughout the book, Sanders’ uses rhetorical devices ranging from allusions of events and people from the past to employing a varied tone in order give the audience a clear view into his thoughts

The text in the image, “What is Monsanto doing to help? Improve lives” (Monsanto), provides an obvious message to the reader that Monsanto is helping people by working to improve lives. This itself is an appeal to the rhetorical strategy ethos, as the fact that Monsanto is helping improve lives shows how the company has the power, knowledge and ability to help make people’s lives better, and that they are a credible company and are capable making these changes that they claim, which is presented as a commitment to making lives better. The text is also included in a stand-alone box that contrasts the rest of the image, allowing the message to almost be an entity of its own and be viewed as the most important, or most noticeable part of the image. This also shows the importance that Monsanto has placed on illustrating how they are helping others in order to change the public’s opinion on it, since the text commands a majority of the attention in the photo. The rest of the attention goes to the bright, cheery image of an elderly man and two young children playing happily. This portrayal of a joyful, assumedly multigenerational family, shows that the image is utilizing the rhetorical strategy of pathos to invoke a sense of

Rhetorical devices are used by writers to have an effect on its audience, they use words in specific ways to convey meaning. In the book “The Presence of Others” they introduce two essays that deal with identity, “Guys vs Men” and “Reptile Dreams” (Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz). In the essay by Dave Barry “Guys vs Men” he uses several rhetorical devices to describe what he believes, is the difference between guys and men (405). One rhetorical device Barry uses is tone. He creates a humorous tone to get his message across to readers; his message is that people should relax and not take things so seriously. In contrast, in Keith Bradsher’s “Reptile Dreams,” Bradsher creates a morose tone to express his opinion on what vehicles say about a person’s identity (471). While the two authors are telling very different stories, both use some of the same rhetorical devices to convey their feelings. Dave Barry’s “Guy vs. Men” and Keith Bradsher’s “Reptile Dreams” both use rhetorical devices of tone, anecdote, and hyperbole to influence the reader.

In 1971 The Coca Cola would come out with a slogan and ad that would spread across the world like a wild fire. In this image we observe a collection of 7 images, 1 in the center and 6 surrounding it creating a border. There’s something peculiar about these pictures when looking at them though, each contains at least 2 people. Displayed are friends, family and couples, out and about living their lives, all are young, and at the very heart of the image, two bottles of Coca Cola, dripping with condensation, reading its classic slogan “It’s the real thing”.

The image I chose was a PSA on hunting with respect. The author of this image is not known but the image was found on pinterest. However what is known is, the author is a hunter who treats every animal he kills with respect. When many people see the image displayed in the PSA they may just see an antler and a knife, but I see a deeper meaning. I chose this image because I am an avid hunter and this PSA matches up very closely with my views on hunting ethics. I believe every animal should be treated with respect. Many people who don’t hunt have a hard time understanding this concept. This PSA is a great way to show others what goes through a hunter’s head.

The representation (Fig 2) is taken from the video Bridget Riley: a garden in my apartment (Ted.com) and shows a young man at the window apparently plucking fruit from a successful installation of a window farm. The depiction also contains information about the city scape in which it is operated. The tall buildings in the background inform the viewer that other window farmers are in the area (the green windows) thus suggesting a community of growers within close proximity. The young man is dressed in “street clothes” which suggests the activity is not restricted to an older demographic. The logo R&D-I-Y informs the user that this project is a self learning experience, accompanied by research and do-it-yourself. The research, a cumulative archive