In my short story intervention I used a variety of different language choices to position my audience to feel sympathy for Mrs Dubose because I believed that she was once a compassionate person. The quotation “...the moment when all her happiness was wiped away from her like a malignant disease” represents this because the grudge that Mrs Dubose held for many years could have made her a stronger and more independent lady but she used it show her hatred. The word wiped has strong connotations of being cleaned and completely erased. Furthermore, this created diction showing a blackboard being completely wiped suggesting that Mrs Dubose’s happiness was taken away from her in a single wipe. The harsh “ed” sound in the pronunciation of the word
In “Bring Back Flogging”, Jeff Jacoby addresses the problems within America 's criminal justice system. He gives many reasons why imprisonment simply does not work, and suggests that corporal punishment should be used as an alternative. Published in the Boston Globe, a newspaper well known for being liberal, Jacoby provides a conservative view and directs his argument towards those who strongly support imprisonment and view corporal punishment to be highly barbaric and inhumane. However, in order to shed light on our current situation, Jacoby discusses the dangers that we face though our criminal justice system a nd shows concern that imprisonment is doing more harm than good. In effect, Jacoby looks to the past for solutions, and
The rhetorical devices that Jane Addams mentions in her speech are hypophora, metaphor, conduplicatio, enumeratio, and personification. Each of these devices has a purpose in the passage, with the author combining all of the devices to strengthen her essay.
“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.
When you see a solider in his or her uniform, you are proud that they are serving this country to protect our freedom, securing our country, and defending democracy worldwide. The solider can come from different branches of the Military. The one you might be familiar with is the U.S. Army. These soldiers are well respected and prepared to serve our country whenever and wherever needed, combat-ready at all times, and trained to counter any threat, anywhere. In 2007, the United States Army department published a recruitment ad for U.S.
Willa Cather has a great understanding of diction and thoroughly displays it in My Antonia. Anton Jelinek, a newly arrived immigrant from Bohemia, still calls Italians, “Eytalian … kawn-tree … we was showed in” (69) and mispronounces country and does not yet understand English grammar. He comments that, “I make my first communion very young,” (71). Jelinek’s informal dialogue fits his character because he is an immigrant and has just barely started to learn English. Therefore, his bad grammar, his accent, and mispronunciations make sense for who he is and where he came from, especially when taken into account where he is in his life. In contrast, Jim, who grew up in America and is native to the land, has a highly developed vocabulary and comments on how things are, “taciturn … [or] queer,” (72) and notes that Krajiek, “shrunk along behind them,” (75). He describes the, “bluish air, full of fine eddying snow, like long veils flying,” (76) and uses the words, “propitiatory intent” (77). Jim has a more formal language and is more educated that the immigrants of the towns. It is logical because it is written from the view of Jim as an adult looking back. As he looks back, he finds more complete words to describe situations that when he was actually in them. Jim’s vocabulary enlarged over time, so changes in how he describes his memories or reasonable.
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
On July 22, 1905, Florence Kelley, a United States social worker and reformer, delivered a speech before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Disgusted by the sweatshop conditions children had to endure, Kelley worked diligently to pull for child labor laws. Her brilliant rhetorical approach is to stop the unjust treatment of children through the enfranchisement of women. To convince the members of the convention, Kelley implements repetition and vivid imagery to persuade the mothers and the teachers in the crowd to urge the working men to help aid their cause.
Dalkesha Bryant is a motivational speaker and the CEO/Founder of the inspirational brand Reflections of Greatness. She was raised by her mother, in a low-income community, in Cincinnati Ohio. As a young child, she always aspired to be greater than the tough circumstances that surrounded her. Once she found her voice, she used the chaos around her to fuel her drive to be more than a “product of her environment.” She was determined to become a product of her thoughts. She learned early on that in life, your mindset is the driving force the controls your outcomes not your environment.
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.
Cynthia, I agree with what you say about knowing who your audience is important. I think when you're writng a paper and you know your audience it will helpp you write your essay alot faster. Knowing your audeince in writing helps because you can understand what type of style you should be using, because if you are writing in a childrens magazaine you are not going to use large words that they wouldnt understand. And if you are writing in a newspaper for adults you are going to try and impress your readers with large and vivid vocabulary to keep them interested in what you're trying to explain.
Judy Rebick is guilty of fallacious reasoning in her article. She starts out with an appeal to pity when she writes about how she thought she was getting ill, but then realized that she “hadn’t taken a day off in more than six weeks.” When stating this fact, she is attempting to elicit a reaction from the reader, getting them to have pity for her and how exhausted she is. She also appeals to the fears of readers when she is looking at some of the facts related to the subject of overwork. She indicates that “family breakup is three to eight times more likely in couples with children if one parent works nights or does shift work.” Family life and sustainability is on the mind of men and woman alike in society today. With ever increasing
There is no doubt in the fact that Mrs Elliot felt the need to present such a spirited speech to inform us that technology such as "modification of genome" are revolutionizing the traditional way of having an offspring as nature intended . The clever use of overstatements such as "generating outrage in the world" achieve the attention of spectators and arouse strong extreme emotional response, positioning the audience to visualise what it would be like to have a World War III due to some engineering of babies. The use of multiple rhetorical questions such as: "would you want a child to suffer a debilitating illness, or, selfishly endure yourself the pain and responsibility?", provokes feelings and position listeners to react emotionally, before
Following in Our Footsteps Our children learn from watching everything we do, from being studious to smoking. At least, this is what ClearWay Minnesota is presenting to us. To elaborate, ClearWay’s We All Pay the Price for Tobacco ad uses a not-so subtle combination of narration, causation, and pathos as rhetorical devices to assure us of the risks of smoking. To start, they present to the viewer with a short thirty second video where they show a loving mother helping her young daughter study multiplication for school. As they finish working through a problem, the mother asks her daughter to keep working while she steps away for a moment.
Deborah Tannen is a professor in linguistics at Georgetown University. She studies the different patterns of language, like talking to people at work, friends, family, politics, academics, law, and how the ways we talk affect relationships with others. In her essay, “Oh, Mom. Oh, Honey. : Why Do You Have to Say That? ” The author’s purpose in this essay is about how mother and daughter relationships are, and what the mother is trying to say to the daughter, when talking to her. The reason behind the author’s purpose, is because her own mother was gradually getting weak. She started spending more time with her mother and caring for her. When her mom died, it transformed her thinking about mother and daughter relationships. She uses real life experiences and dialect to convey her intentions to the reader. In the essay, the author uses research and conducted interviews that she found about mother and daughter relationships, to show the actual meaning to what mothers are saying to their daughters when communicating.
In Marjane Satrapi's word-specific panel about refugees fleeing north on page 89, she indicates the perilous situation of the war through taxis escaping flaming iconography. The bombing of border towns in the Iran-Iraq war forces residents to abandon their homes and belongings in the hope of finding refuge in the northern cities. The foreboding, chaotic scene underscores a period of turmoil in Iranian history. The words of the panel state, “After Abadan, every border town was targeted by bombers. Most of the people living in those areas had to flee northward, far away from the Iraqi missiles.” Satrapi sets the backdrop of warfare with intense, slightly militaristic words such as “targeted,” “flee,” and “far away”. This being a word-specific panel, the graphic