Interpretation and Analysis of “from W. S.” by L.P.Hartley

To get the audience’s attention, Robbins asks rhetorical questions: “What is it that drives

1. Throughout the story suspense is aroused and maintained excellently. This is achieved by the character the author creates. Mr. Martin is characterized as a neat and cautious man, who never took a smoke or a drink in his life. Our suspense is aroused when the author states that it has been “a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows”. This arouses our suspense because we are told Mr. Martin is planning to murder this woman. The suspense is maintained with Mr. Martin’s thoughts. We as an audience are given his thoughts through the use of the 3rd person omniscient point of view. His thoughts are mostly on the issue on his dislike of Mrs. Barrows. Because of this, he

Additionally, the subject of this novel is stated through various viewpoints of information and is understood by all audiences. In addition, the mood of the story is mysterious, unsettling, and chilling. In particular, when the author describes the murder of Emmett that is enough visualization to send chills down the reader's spine. Also, the tone of the author throughout the novel is solemn and gloomy. Lastly, not only is the novel informant: it’s also educational at the same time.

review of the rhetorical situation for my assignment three. The purpose of this assignment is to

In her undertaking of a novel with an unusual topic, Mary Roach balances her book, Stiff, with the perfect amount of sarcasm and sincerity. Due to the overall themes of the book being death and cadavers, it would be hard to consider completely digesting the book without a little bit of satirical dialogue. After all, the entire book would seem kind of morbid without it. Her tongue-in-cheek writing style kept me constantly engaged in the reading and wanting more. She was blunt at times and also knew when it was necessary to be subtle. It is a fairly informal and easy-going style of writing.

The article displays an appeal to credibility through detailed accounts of Debrow’s life, yet there is also careful consideration to elicit specific emotions throughout the text. Hollandsworth makes a prominent appeal to pathos through literary devices and specific use of detail. “The night of the robbery, Edwin drank Thunderbird wine mixed with grape Kool-Aid” (para. 23). This is an example of selective use of detail and literary devices together; he juxtaposes the crime and Thunderbird with the nostalgic and childlike connotation of grape Kool-Aid. Hollandsworth constantly reminds the reader that Debrow was 12, even though he may seem to be so hardened and already involved with a gang, crime,

The purpose of rhetorical question is to gain the reader’s attention so that they can start thinking about

Reoccuring in many stories is the abrupt ending of “Kitty”, this happens again in Dan Pagis’ “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car” to engage the reader in thinking about messages lost in the Holocaust. This short poem refers

The author’s tone is critical, judgmental, and uses as many big words as possible in order to show everyone how much smarter she is than them.

His scholarly use of diction gives the reader the impression that Staples is a professional and educated man. As he uses words such as “earnest” and “perilous,” most readers would not have those handy in their daily vocabulary. By having more advanced words, the audience would sense Staples as educated, making the stereotype of “big” and “scary” towards him unsuitable. The readers would see that Staples should be nowhere close to a murderer or mugger like the beginning lady assumed. Staples uses a sarcastic tone to brighten the mood when it is necessary, creating a larger bond between the audience-one that takes sarcasm positively.

What effect did the author intent for his readers to have through the rhetorical questions on page 336?

I was very astonished, when I went to the office hour the first time and asked my professor to give me some advice about my essay. At that time, I had no idea how to specify my topic and analyze my thesis, but my professor gave me lots of specific and arguable ideas that I had never thought of. Then, I started to realize that the ability I am supposed to learn from Writing 39B class is the way to do rhetorical analysis. During these ten weeks classes of Writing 39B, I make improvements on skills of doing rhetorical analysis as well as conveying my message to the reader effectively. To be more specific, I have learned how to analyze an essay from the

This letter contains diction on a way to make the letter more profession. An example would be "If man like work he need not want victuals." He uses highly words to explain how there is time for her to migrate

S. J. Perelman uses phrases like, …I made the most important discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected” to express sarcasm (Perelman, 186). He exaggerates his character’s experience in phrases like, “the subject is placed in a sharply

Two examples that portray this representative type are: the suppositional statement made by the journalist at the beginning of the interview that reads ‘Are we losing the overall picture here, anybody in West Yorkshire who’s getting a bit sore that Tetley’s getting the elbow?’ (journalist, first page); and, the supposition concerning the name’s change for Royal Mail to Consignia that ‘it was like a flop, wasn’t it?’ (journalist, second page). Furthermore, certain speech acts in this conversation are examples of direct speech because the question that reads as ‘I think of stories like Consignia, you remember?’ (speaker, first page) is associated directly with its relevant answer in its literate sense that reads as ‘yeah’ (journalist, first page).