Katy Perry Rhetorical Analysis

GEICO and Esurance both use pathos to persuade their target audience to purchase their products. GEICO uses pathos in their commercial by showing

Most of the time, when we listen to a song, we don’t listen to the words, or what message they are trying to give us. Each song out there has a message in the lyrics somewhere. For this assignment, we were to analyze a song and the lyrics and find the thesis of that song. With thesis, I mean what the message within the song is trying to tell us. The song “I hope you dance” by Lee Ann Womack has a good thesis in some ways, but the thesis could also be argumentative also.

the ones that stand out most is her determination, her courage, and that she fights for

Many great writers have a way of connecting to their audience and influence the way we analyze their writing strategies. Cheryl Strayed created a biography, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, about her life changing experience that allows us the opportunity to apply aspects of a rhetorical analysis to her writing. Cheryl’s memory of her journey along the Pacific Crest Trail, that extends over 1,000 miles from Mexico to Canada, provides us with explicit details and evidence that tie into her motives and conditions for writing and her intended audience. Cheryl also makes appeals to her knowledge, trustworthiness, and emotions that help us illustrate her insights as she traveled along the trail.

Queen Elizabeth I is considered to be one of the most powerful women in history. In 1588, as ruler of England, she was faced with an invasion against Spain for control over trade in the new world. Her “Against the Spanish Armada” speech was addressed to the English Army at Tilbury Fort to help motivate and boost assurance, as well as showing support to her troops over the battle they were about to face. With her passionate words and courageous way, Queen Elizabeth establishes a connection with her soldiers; appealing to their patriotism and emotions through logos, pathos, and ethos. Although she was uncertain of a “famous victory”, Elizabeth instills the reassurance they need to fight against Spain and leading them to victory in the end.

Improving undesirable working conditions for women and eliminating child labor was an impassioned issue for female reformers during the time of industrialization in the United States. Florence Kelley, a united states social worker and reformer, opposes the appalling work environment children as young as six would toil through and relays her speech to the National Woman Suffrage Association to propel her audience to demand changes that are necessary to stop countless hours of hard-work the youth struggle to complete. Kelley adopts a fervid tone in order to convince the audience that political action is needed to adjust the laws that allows child labor to continue in many states with her use of pathos and rhetorical questions meant to stir action

Assata shakur was a member of the Black Panthers movement and was the most wanted person by the FBI. She was charged with first degree murder, assault, and battery of a police officer because of her activism, which brought resentment against her. This compelled her to move to Cuba, where she still lives today. She’s also Tupac Shakur step aunt. In “To My People “, she expresses her discontent about the white man 's position in society that allows them to manipulate and oppress the black man. She commands the colored men to advocate, assemble, to fight for their rights, and freedom because the american society and law enforcement are corrupted. She

Although Perry aspires to find happiness, he realizes how hard it is since he has not forgiven himself because of the actions he contributed to the murder; therefore, finding forgiveness for yourself is important to discovering true happiness.

Stephanie Ericsson categorizes the many ways people lie on a daily basis. She uses a mixture of facts, quotes and opinions to capture the severity of telling a lie. Her article has enabled me to understand the thought process that goes behind telling a lie. She justifies minor lies by using ethos and stating that minor lies prevents hurt feelings and that it is normal to lie. Stephanie frequently asks rhetorical questions to make readers think of the matter at hand. She also uses anaphora to seem more relatable and understanding to her readers. I tell minor lies on a daily basis but I did not realize that there is so many different types of lies. i and many other people often rationalize with ourselves to make our lies seem less harmful when

Mrs. Nelson is writing about the recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, where many white supremacists are protesting with former KKK member to get their ¨country back.¨ Nelson is writing to the American people who are staying silent. Nelson is telling them to stand up and speak out against open racism. Nelson talks about how her ancestors, slaves, were never treated right. Nelson talks about how many things still did not change. Nelsons tone throughout the article was angry. Nelson seemed very upset about the situation. Nelson herself is African American which makes her a credible person to write this article. The author argues U.S citizens need to stand up against racism, and she supports her argument with her angry tone, implicit claims about privilege, and appeals to pathos.

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Florence Kelley, a social and political reformer, delivered a speech at a women's suffrage movement to fight for the rights of children. The speech consisted on how the children under the age of sixteen are working long hours during the night as well as the work area conditions being extremely poor. Kelley uses women not being able to vote to her advantage by saying if women had the right to vote, the laws would prevent child labor. Since women are unable to vote, Kelley and the other women will try to convince men to help women gain the right to vote, which would allow them to work together to prevent child labor. Through the use of the rhetorical devices, ethos, pathos, logos, and oxymoron, Kelley’s speech represents an established argument that will help create a reform in the child labor laws.

Susan Glaspell’s short story A Jury of Her Peers is a unique way to focus on sexism. I enjoy this story, because it focuses on something many writers stray from. However, I would recommend this short story to people whom enjoy stories the setting takes place in the past when men had more control over women. This short story was a twist of events. The story had no flash forwards I believe in order to leave the ending of the story open to imagination, and also because the short story was focused on the past of Mrs. Wright and how she changed drastically.

Besides Perry the other main part of this ad is obviously the makeup, the ad is trying to sell Covergirls “Plumpify Mascara” stating that this mascara will give the person who uses it 50 times the volume in their eye lashes. This ad is a perfect example of a celebrity endorsing a company to help their product sell, but who are they selling to? The Covergirl advertisement that I choose is a magazine ad that is trying to sell a volumizing mascara and states that it is, “a whole new look in lashes” and that it will give you, “50 times the volume and a vertical lift to your lashes”. The advertisements main part is the background

Katy really stands out in this advertisement. She does not really look like herself though, with all the makeup and Photoshopping. She looks very Barbie-dollish and fake. It’s like it’s too good to be true. Everything about the picture is perfect; too perfect, in fact.