“When you’re on a holiday”, “playing and having fun”, and “you’re on a golden sea” are all phrases found in the song “Island in the Sun” performed by the band Weezer and was produced in 2001. As I first listed to the song, written by Rivers Cuomo, I imagined a young man looking for someone to enjoy life with. Through studying the allegory, I further realized that the tone was Cuomo’s hopefulness which is expressed as he is seeking to find the meaning in life which turned evolved to capturing the theme.
It appears Weezer is singing an allegory hidden within the diction. Weezer’s hopeful diction prompts us to believe the song was speaking of a fulfilling outcome from the use of drugs. The songs begins by highlighting something that many of us can relate to “a holiday.” Further researched pointed to the fact the lyrics “a holiday” could refer to the drug holiday (4/20), meaning marijuana. Even though the symbolism of the diction is hidden to those who might not be familiar with such things, it was obvious for Weezer’s intended audience. The song transitions almost like I would imagine an experience on drugs. The
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I believed this again, might reflect an what a person might experience with using drugs. In his first 2 versus the first two lines rhyme and the last two rhyme. Creating a since of togetherness and flow. Combined with the melody this rhyming patterns projects a feeling of fun, relaxing, and fulfillment. The refrain also presents similar rhyming pattern and uses words like sun, fun, playing, and find control. Each representing a positive experience. Towards the end of the song Weezer words and patterns reflect and a more intense, desperate situation. Almost like the person has come off the high and again finds themselves seeking assurance of good things. The pattern has changed and the melody is harsher, not as soothing or joyful in its
Glenn Frey, the co-founder of the Eagles, was a middle class kid living in the midwest. He dreamed of acquiring tremendous wealth in Los Angeles, but later realized that there are more important things than money. In their song, Hotel California, originally titled Mexican Reggae, they (The Eagles) express this idea to their audience through lyrics that convey the idea that there are more important things than just possessions, and there are negatives to the “American Dream. The audience in this could be the average person, yet, the rhetorical devices in The Eagles’ “Hotel California” are intended to reveal to the audience that there are negatives to the American Dream, and you shouldn’t change who you are in order to make it rich.
Filmmaker Justin Simm’s short film, HAND.LINE.COD. takes place in Eastern Canada. The short film takes a closer look at the 500-year-old traditional hand fishing method used by the locals. HAND.LINE.COD. appeals to many rhetorical techniques including pathos, ethos, and logos with the film taking place in ruggedly beautiful Newfoundland, the local fishers go on about their daily lives using their intricate ways of catching one fish at a time using only their hands and a line. This film is highly effective in its use of pathos to create an emotional connection with the audience while using ethos and logos to reinforce and build the credibility of the film. Centuries of fishing in Fogo island
Not only does Le Guin apply rhetorical appeals in her speech, but she also incorporates a multitude of rhetorical devices, such as sententia and antithesis. Le Guin utilizes sententia when she states, “Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure” (Le Guin line 30). Le Guin attempts to tear down separation by gender and bring people together on common ground by concluding that males and females are both bound to face failure because everyone is simply human. To this end, she aims to halt comparison between genders as well as the notion that women are always secondary to men. In effect, Le Guin follows up with the rhetorical device antithesis to build upon her use of sententia. Le Guin uses antithesis in this section to help her emphasize the point: “You will find you’re weak where you thought yourself strong” (Le Guin lines 31-32). Her illustration of antithesis further exemplifies the notion that gender does not matter when it comes to the struggles and failures of life, which all humans, regardless of gender, indisputably face. Le Guin ultimately deploys the rhetorical devices sententia and antithesis in unison to end contrast and conflict between genders and unite men and women alike.
Brown open with a dedication, then quotes from George Yeoman Pocock and Homer. Then comes the Table of Contents, followed by an image of the men rowing on Lake Washington and a five page prologue. The narrative begins on page 17 and is divided into four parts, each telling the story of different years in Rantz life. Following the story comes a 24 page epilogue, six pages of author’s notes, 48 pages of notes, 2 pages of photo credits, and a page about the author.
While it is widely rumored that many of Bob Dylan’s songs were written while he was under the influence of various drugs, I’m not so sure that those rumors are accurate. Following a 1991 interview conducted by Paul Zollo with Bob Dylan, Zollo stated that “There’s an unmistakable elegance in Dylan’s words, an almost biblical beauty” and that “Dylan’s answers give you a lot to think about while not necessarily revealing much about the man”. (Zollo 2) The same can be said with regard to many of the lyrics of Dylan’s songs. The lyrics to “Mr. Tambourine Man”, for example, are wildly descriptive and sometimes confusing and can leave a listener (or a reader) open to many different interpretations, some more complex than others, with no real meaning ever being clearly stated.
The passage The Great American Desert, an excerpt from The Journey Home, published in 1977, written by Edward Abbey uses rhetorical strategies in attempt to emphasize his argument against the desert. The excerpt is from an environmental book and is meant to argue against desertification using repetition, alliteration, personification, and rhetorical questions to show what a desert actually is and it's true lack of beauty. The first section starts with two rhetorical questions, “Why go into the desert? Really, why do it?”
Richard Louv, in his book “Last Child in the Woods” describes the dramatic change that the world is now facing. Louv’s purpose is to show reader that not everything that we invent is good. In addition, the writer uses a reader-friendly tone in order to establish that he is not going to be harsh on any one person. Also, the author creates a factual tone by giving reader lots of information. Louv does so by utilizing diction in order to establish the mood and tone in the passage.With the use of rhetorical devices such as diction, nostalgia, and rhetorical questioning, Louv has a powerful impact and gets his point across to the audience.
Guilt is a strong emotion that haunts us all, others hide it deep within themselves, some try to fix the wrong, and few people do good from it. The Kite Runner is the story of a boy named Amir, he struggles to find his place in the world, reason being of the all of the traumatic childhood events. He sends most of his time and life just sulking in guilt about the decisions he has made. Khaled Hosseini has given the idea that guilt can make you do good things, but all relies on what you're guilty about. The way this is portrayed is through the novel is through rhetorical strategies and imagery.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the predominant leader of the Civil Rights Movement to end racial discrimination and segregation in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a world-renowned spokesperson advocating nonviolent protest, many of his speeches were centered on peaceful ways to change the unfair treatment and segregation of blacks. His hope was to use these methods of nonviolent protest so that one day all of God’s children, whites and blacks included, would live, and treat each other, as equals. On April 3, 1968, he delivered what would be his final speech, I’ve Been to the Mountaintop, in Memphis, Tennessee, at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters).
Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle, being a persuasive novel in nature, is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone, use of periodic sentencing, descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric, Upton Sinclair constructs a moving novel that makes his message, and the reasoning behind it, clear.Sinclair’s use of periodic sentences allows him to cram details and supporting evidence into his sentence before revealing his interpretation of the evidence. Take for example, “Here
After examining the whole song, one can guess that the song makes the claim that marijuana is a drug that allows easy passage to worse drugs. According to “a 1969 Gallup poll, only 4% of American adults said they had tried marijuana. Thirty-four percent said they didn't know the effects of marijuana, but 43% thought it was used by many or some high school kids” (Robison); therefore, many individuals might not understand that marijuana, as many claim today, leads to usage of more harmful substances. The speaker then sees a shimmering light as if he is about to die which signifies the death of an old life and the birth of a new one. The temptation of drugs becomes too strong, so the speaker has to stop at the Hotel California. The mission bell that sounds contrasts so with the topic of this song that the bell must symbolize the perversion of life by the drug-use in California and elsewhere. “This could be Heaven or this could be Hell,” furthers the idea of the death of an old life. Here, the speaker does not really know whether or not his or her new life is going to be enjoyable in the end. As it turns out, the speaker's new life is hell. Then she lights up a candle, or perhaps a joint since the place most likely has electricity in the seventies, and shows the speaker the way. Perhaps the woman is a drug-dealer or a prostitute; ether one could lead a person to a lifestyle full of drugs and alcohol.
In Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”, Swift makes use of a prominent poetic device, paradox. The rhetorical device that Taylor Swift has used again and again in the song is ‘paradox’ and it is considered as her weapon of choice in writing the entire song. For example in the first line “Nice to meet you/ Where you’ve been.” (Swift), it is contradictory. You do not care for where a person has been if you do not met him/her before, unless you knew all along that you will be meeting him or waiting for him even though you did not know who he was. The ‘nice to meet you’ line implies that she has just met him. That is just a first example of a number of paradoxes used in the entire song.
In the essay Ground Zero by Suzanne Berne writes about her very personal experience visiting Ground Zero the place where the twin towers stood prior to the tragedy of 9/11. She uses rhetorical devices throughout her essay to make the piece feel incredibly intimate and emotional to the reader. She specifically uses imagery, tone, simile, and metaphor to explain her experience to Ground Zero in a deeper and meaningful way to her readers. Berne uses rhetorical devices in her essay Ground Zero to let her readers feel the same emotions and imagine the same things she saw on her visit to make the essay very intimate and realistic.
In Consider The Lobster, David Foster Wallace raises an ethical question: “Is it right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?” However, this essay is not to provide a definite answer to this question but lets the readers come up with their own answers. Wallace uses rhetorical strategies such as comparison, imagery, and questions to make the audiences think deep about the moral lens of consuming lobsters.
A Small Place, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid, is a story relating to the small country of Antigua and its dilemmas from Jamaica Kincaid’s point of view. In this novel Kincaid is trying to inform her audience that Antigua is in a poor state due to British imperial, government corruption, and tourism. Kincaid exposes her audience to the effect of these very problems in Antigua by using persuasive visual language. In the third part of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place, Kincaid does an exceptional job in arguing that, her country Antigua has corrupt government officials due to British influence by appealing effectively to pathos, logos, and ethos.