How Does Richard Matheson Use Rhetorical Devices In I Am Legend '?

When one hears the title I Am Legend being mentioned, they usually associate it with Will Smith and the terrific job he did in portraying the protagonist of the story Robert Neville. However, what they typically leave out is the equally terrific job done by author Richard Matheson coming up with the storyline and writing the original book version. While Richard Matheson’s post-apocalyptic science fiction book, I Am Legend, and Francis Lawrence’s post-apocalyptic science fiction movie, I Am Legend, both have similarities and differences, in the end, the original book version prevails mainly because the movie version alters the original storyline too much.

Turners short narrative ‘Fingers’, explores the intuition of fantasy and the mysterious actions of the protagonist Lonsdale Prince. In order to establish a sense of horror, Turner demonstrates the use of essential and vivid imagery hence persisting to continue tonal adjustments throughout. Turner has this possible ability to be able to connect a sense of creativity and mystery to his reality. Turner utilizes a range of language features when outlining the central object to the story ‘A severed human finger’ (pg 3). The finger is the innermost focus of the tale. This connection is what creates a true horror setting and it is evident when Turner states.. ’clearly mummified the skin…dry … but it was nonetheless perfect’

Richard Wright, both the author and main character of “Library Card”, experiences prejudice first hand throughout his piece. Acting as an obstacle, this prejudice often prevents him from being able to visit the library. Along with this, his lack of books leaves him ignorant. Questioning the world around him, Wright struggles to see the world as anything but black and white. This impairs his reading and writing skills. He demonstrates this with the use of rhetorical questions. What is a rhetorical question? It is a rhetorical device that is often used to persuade or subtly influence the reader in a form of a question. Used correctly, these stylistic devices can have an enormous impact on the reader. In “The Library Card”, Wright uses rhetorical questions to emphasize and accentuate his points.

"Spin" chapter rhetorical devices The chapter "Spin" is really cool to read because Tim O'Brien uses flashbacks in the chaptg and goes from one arecdote to the present to amther anecdote, and the stuies don't seem to connect, but he follows his modem train of thought and tells stories wherever the train takes him. O'Brien also uses ethos as a former soldier, and creates pathos through his stories. The most prominent and interesting rhetorical device he uses is verisimilitude. Verisimilitude is when fiction seems realistic, as if the events had actually happened.

Additionally, King builds his credibility with the utilization of ethos in his text in order to convince them of his argument. By appealing to the readers’ ethics, they can see how trustworthy King’s words are and then can let themselves be persuaded by his matter-of fact tone and professionalism in writing. King is a realist, which means that he almost always represents things as they really are, which profoundly helps establish his honest persona. Most of Stephen King’s writing represents more than one tenet, as his stories that he tells about his childhood and road to recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism can be seen as not only pathos, but and etho as well, as these stories help the readers to understand what kind of person he is, and how he accomplished all of his success despite a couple of major roadblocks. This is why it can be seen that King uses pathos most heavily in his writing, by telling vivid stories, etc. in order to touch upon human emotion towards human experiences/traits, while also creating a strong voice in his writing as well. The overlapping of these appeals help support the ethics and sensibility of King’s work. There are scores of times where it can be clearly identified where ethos have been used in his writing. For example, King says “I’m a slow reader, but i usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, mostly fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; i read because i like to read.- Similarly, I don't read to study the art of fiction, but simply because I like stories-Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (King, pg 145) This helps to support the idea that writing is learned through reading, and also is learned through the mistakes of other writers. There is no better way to learn than to look at a piece of writing that has some minor or even major flaws and to analyze the piece to see what the issue is, and learn from their mistake to better your own writing in the future. Another one of King’s main arguments is that no writer is perfect. There are always things that you can do to make your writing even better, no matter how small the adjustment may be. It’s a learning process

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.

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was first published in 1850. It was set in a harsh Puritan community in Massachusetts during the seventeenth century. Hawthorne was of Puritan descent and researched the community. The focus of his novel is based on the adulteress act of Hester Prynne and how she was treated by her community. The novel is known for it’s abundance of rhetorical and literary devices, and was one of the first novels to effectively use them. Hawthorne uses rhetorical devices to portray his views and thoughts about the community. One device Hawthorne uses is irony. Specifically, dramatic, situational, and verbal irony. Hawthorne's use of irony is employed to show the true characteristics and emotions of the characters,

Rachel Carson is a noted biologist who studies biology, a branch of science addressing living organisms, yet she has written a book called Silent Spring to speak about the harmful effects of pesticides on nature. Carson doesn’t write about birds’ genetic and physical makeup, the role of them in the animal food chain, or even how to identify their unbelievable bird songs, yet strongly attests the fight for a well developed environment containing birds, humans, and insects is just and necessary. To Carson, the war for a natural environment is instantly essential for holding on to her true love for the study of biology. Thus Carson claims that whether it be a direct hit towards birds or an indirect hit towards humans and wildlife, farmers need to understand the effects and abandon the usage of pesticides in order to save the environment by appealing to officials, farmers, and Americans in her 1962 book, Silent Spring. She positions her defense by using rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questioning to establish logos, juxtaposing ideas, and using connotative and denotative diction.

The writer continues to use descriptive phrases for the monster, she does this to lure readers into the main section of the chapter, because the readers can't help but read the phrases to get an image of the monster themselves in their heads, this effect is created by such phrases as “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of arteries and muscles beneath”.

In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the rhetorical device that makes the most impact on the reader is Pathos because he shows us what he was feeling and that eventually takes a toll on you. First of all when Elie’s father figured out that he was dying, he wanted his son to feel for him and so he said, ““You, atleast, have pity on me….” Have pity on him! I his only son….”(Wiesel 110). This quote is revealing how Elie truly feels about his father because he has caused him so much pain throughout the years and so, Elie isn’t to upset about his father condition since he knows he is going to die soon and it will help him stay alive longer.

Nicholas Carr used many Rethorical Analysis tools to give his article a closer connection between his readers and the text itself. He gave examples of each tool to better understand identifying and using them. Each tool takes part in strengthening, weakening, or even developing Carr’s argument differently towards the reader.

A method that resonates the best for my artifact is Neo-Aristotelian, an “original method of criticism” (Newbold & Scoot, 2017). This method can best help analyze not only speeches, but also advertisements, novels, public service announcements, etc. Deliberative genre, outlined by Aristotle, is demonstrated in this speech as an attempt to “persuade [young adults] to take some action” to become successful in their future (Nordquist, 2017). Thoroughly invested in the future of young adults, success is what Eric Thomas strives for his audiences to reach and works at gaining their initiative to do so.

Pathos was the strongest rhetorical strategy used in the speech because it was all about family and that becomes emotional. The tone through the video is very strong, meaning if I just read the speech and not watched the scene I would have thought Rocky was mad at his son rather than just a father trying to get through to his son. Rocky body language is also a strong appeal to one’s emotion, his posture, facial expressions, and tone. Rocky stands tall, almost fearless when he talks to his son. His stance is particularly empowering, trying to prove to his son he proud in what he is preaching. Rocky is not trying to put his son down, but wants his son to see he loves him and where he is going in life isn’t the right way. People can relate to

Richard Matheson, the most prominent American author in the horror genre, who published the preeminent horror novel, I Am Legend in 1954, renders Robert Neville as the hero of the novel as he struggles to overcome a constant battle against the vampires and his subconscious mind. At the end of the novel, Robert Neville can be interpreted to finally have the ability to see the world through the perspective of the vampires which, ultimately, leads him to be able to understand them. Matheson reveals the true monster to be not the vampires nor Robert Neville, but prejudice. However, Matheson first establishes a connection between Robert Neville and the audience. This connection allows the message, that prejudice is capable of being the darkest

There are often rhetorical questions in literature. In some cases the author uses these questions as connectors to a big idea, but other times the author intends for the reader to grapple with a difficult topic. Albert Camus, a philosopher, and the author of The Stranger purposefully put in many rhetorical questions, in the hopes that they would be dissected and thought about. Throughout the book there is a constant idea; the value of life is unimportant due to the fact that all human beings are