Henry Deveereaux Dog Rhetorical Analysis

Don’t you just love books and things about survival and wilderness, I know right. Well, there is two excerpts and they are about survival and wilderness.

In the novella Animal Farm, the timeline of early 1900s Russia unfolds in an allegory, with revolutionists Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx sparking a rebellion against Czar Nicholas II. Subsequently, a social democratic party known as the Bolsheviks overthrew the czar, aided by two significant leaders: Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Even so, the newfound ideology of communism that Stalin introduced and quickly corrupted through propaganda proved to be just as oppressive as the reign of Nicholas II. Most importantly, this corruption and oppression was elucidated by British author George Orwell through the use of rhetorical devices in the allegorical satire Animal Farm, where the audience receives a glimpse into the cunning caricature of

Kristoff uses many rhetorical devices to make points in his piece, “Our Blind Spot About Guns”. He compares the safety of guns to cars and tries to make a point that we should regulate them in the same way. One rhetorical device Kristoff used is visual persuasion. By showing a picture of a sign stating that guns were prohibited in Dodge City, a symbol of the Wild West, he used this visual to show the reader that gun prohibition has already been established throughout history. Visual persuasion is often used to convince the reader that the statements that are being forth are superior to the opposing side. It shows visual proof and is intended to make a point and persuade the reader to agree with the statement. Another rhetorical device that was used in the piece was a paradox. The author used this device when he said, “It’s pointless because even if you regulate cars, then people will just run each other down with bicycles,” (“Our Blind Spot About Guns” pg. 161) This statement is

Gore Vidal once said, “The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn’t be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; In the New World, of course, they could and did.” In1741, esteemed Puritan pastor, Jonathan Edwards, preached a sermon to his congregation, terrifying everyone who wasn’t truly Puritan into becoming one. Edwards’ purpose was to admonish non-Puritans and emphasizes the importance of the Puritans rededicating their life to their faith. Edwards uses diction, logos, and personification to terrorize the congregation into leading the “perfect Puritan life”.

Jonathan Edwards is one of the leaders of the “Great Awakening.” Before reading the text, determine the historical context through online research. In one or two sentences, briefly define the historical context of Edward's’ speech. What does Edwards hope to accomplish with this sermon? Define his purpose.

In the story "Dog," Henry Devereaux was raised by parents who were aloof and unavailable. His parents were English professors who were "academic nomads," and his father was an "academic opportunist" who was

“McCandless didn’t conform particularly well to the bush casualty stereotype.” Jon Krakauer, in his book Into The Wild, argues that McCandless was a unique personality who yearned for adventure. He supports his claim by the usage of epigraphs, interviews with McCandless’s acquaintances, and various maps that are indicative of where the protagonist travelled. Krakauer's purpose is to use an argumentative structure in order to convince the audience that McCandless was more complex than previously known. He uses a nostalgic and commanding tone in order to emotionally appeal to an audience who may have originally had different opinions on McCandless. In Into The Wild, Krakauer employs techniques of ethos and speaker in order to thoroughly convey

Jonathan Edwards combines many persuasive techniques in this sermon, he uses Logic, appealing to the audience’s emotions, and the past teachings of puritans , but appealing to the audience’s emotions was most effective. Jonathan Edwards used emotions to get through the audience’s head, particularly the fear technique. He made them believe God had everybody’s fate in his hands, and one wrong move, and God could drop you to burn in hell. Everyone during this time fear the unknown. We don’t know if it’s the end of our being, or the beginning of an everlasting life. What we don’t know we make great strides to knowing what it is. Religion is the same. We afraid of dying because we don’t know what it feels like to die. It’ll happen to all of us,

All around the world in one way or the other, everyone tries to sell an idea or an actual thing. Everyone is always trying to convince each other by using different techniques to sell an idea or a thing. In order to sell and persuade an idea or thing, people have to tell it to an audience by using advertising and rhetorical strategies. Rhetoric is to transform and change a person’s perspective and truly convince them of something. An efficient way that marketers convince through rhetorical strategies is through advertising. A market that uses advertising a lot are beauty commercials like the Dove’s Real Beauty “film” commercial.

George Graham Vest’s “Tribute to the Dog,” is an emotional speech delivered as the closing remarks to a legal case, in which Vest represented a man suing another man for killing his dog. As such representation, it was in Vest’s interest to persuade the jury to side with his client, and condemn the actions of the canine killer. “Tribute to the Dog” expertly appeals to the emotions of the reader, or audience, by building up the pathos; Vest utilizes extreme examples to convey the undependable nature of mankind, contrasting it with a dog’s everlasting loyalty and innocence. The structure of the closing argument provides a juxtaposition that not only emphasizes the comparison, but also provides relief from the pathos Vest introduced. Moreover,

The second conflict, man versus man, is also an external conflict. This conflict is just between the two head of each family. The hatred toward the opposite family was passed on to the current heads of each family: Ulrich, the head of the Gradwitz family, and Georg, head of the Znaeym family. The two men hate each other due to their family

“We can leave the mountain anytime we want but those with ALS are prisoners in their own body”-Alex Williams. People with ALS start losing their ability to move as the disease goes through their body. In the Book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Morrie Schwartz has ALS and he tries to give away all of his wisdom before he dies. Morrie teaches people to live life through showing love to family, not hiding or being scared of aging and accepting that Death is natural.

and the audience, and secondly, by speaking in an active voice to let the sophisticated audience know of the importance that his argument brings.

In the world today, media is one of the major ways that companies and businesses sell or inform the society about their products. Television specifically uses commercials to get the attention of their audience by using language, sound, visuals, and persuasive strategies. The commercial, “A Boy and His Dog Duck,” was created by the company IAMS. This commercial is meant to persuade their target audience into buying IAMS food for not only one stage of their animal’s life, but for all stages of its life. The commercial that IAMS created, is quite effective for middle-class new mothers wanting their children to have a long-term companion.

Little Frank and his Carp: A Gallery Talk 1989 is a video in where artist Andrea Fraser tours through the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao as a visitor listening to an audio guide. The opening shot show us waiting in line to receive the audio guide device when ,Dressed in a green dress, Fraser, walks into the lobby, speaks to the museum staff and receives her audio device, and begins her guide through the museum. Using conventional elements of a gallery tour, the narrator of the audio tour offers his thoughts on the building’s aesthetics with intimate description. Fraser employs comical parody to stereotypical mannerisms one comes to expect from a visitor of a museum in her performance, applying in-depth and embellished praise to the items she comes across. Often there is a weird disconnection between Fraser reaction and the atrium description.