Rhetorical Analysis Of This Is Water Speech By Davis Foster Wallace

Twain mentions on how we as teenagers and smaller kids should consider on hearing and thinking more when adults try to give us advice, because most of them have already been through what we are living now. On the lesson he gives us an advice on how becoming a better liar can make you a much smarter person in a very humorous and entertaining way.

In order to deliver a successful speech, there are countless qualities that must be present to reach both the emotional and logical sense within a crowd. Through the use of rhetorical strategies and by remaining credible, a speaker or an author can connect with their audience; getting them involved with their writing. In May of 2011, a man by the name of Denzel Washington used multiple rhetorical strategies to deliver a graduation speech at the University of Pennsylvania. While revealing all of the difficult times that he had gone through while in college and discovering what career he wanted to pursue, he inspired millions of people, leaving a profound effect upon the world. Now, with millions of fans, Washington is a famous actor that has starred in numerous movies such as Courage Under Fire, Crimson Tide, and Malcolm X. Washington, along with the authors: Aristotle, Peter Elbow, and Donald Murray, and many others, have made a big difference in the world, simply by using rhetorical strategies.

He uses many rhetorical questions to provoke a desire to change oneself for the better, “What happens if we keep trudging along this bleak course? What happens if our most intelligent students never learn to strive to overcome what they are?” (Edmundson 402). If students cannot better themselves, can society ever better itself? If students have no passion for school, they will have no passion for things after college such as their jobs. They will settle for sub-par situations because it is the easy thing to do. Seeking a job raise will become too much of a hassle. Investing themselves into politics, too much of an inconvenience. Contributing to society, too much of a nuisance. They will take the easy way out, the way with the least amount of investment and passion and society will

Rhetorical Analysis of Joe Clark’s Inspirational Speech in the motion picture Lean on Me, 1989

In “Consider the Lobster”, an essay published in August of 2004, David Foster Wallace argues that torturing and killing animals for humanistic pleasure is unethical and inhumane. Throughout the essay, Wallace utilizes rhetorical devices and draws emotion from the audience to support his central claim. Wallace describes the history of lobsters, the Maine Lobster Festival, and how lobsters are cooked and killed in order to raise awareness on the inhumanity in how lobsters and animals in general are treated. Wallace effectively supports his argument by establishing pathos and providing context on the cruel methods in which lobsters are baited and eventually cooked, gaining support for his thesis. Rhetorical Devices •

Rhetoric is a significant part of our everyday lives. Whether it's convincing our friends to go to a concert on the weekend, to go to a certain place for lunch, or even convincing yourself to do something that you should but don't want to do. Rhetoric is all around us today. Billboard ads, television commercials, newspaper ads, political speeches, even news stories all try, to some degree, to sway our opinion or convince us to take some sort of action. If you take a step back to look and think about it, rhetoric, in all actuality, shapes our lives. Every day we have an array of options of things to do or things to buy. So every day, our opinion or actions are being influenced, however minutely, by rhetoric.

It is a speech that has a material presence in the modern day where leaders like John F. Kennedy among others have quoted it urging their countrymen to overcome challenges and soldier ahead despite the prevailing circumstances. A lot of inspiration has been drawn from the speeches made by Henry V.

Rhetorical techniques: The Secrets Behind the Dialogues Larry Watson, in Montana 1948, presents a story of a family that not only about Wesley Hayden, as the sheriff of the town and the brother of the accused doctor, but the whole family struggles between the family loyalty and justice. Watson develops each character through their own ethical dilemmas and different ways they choose to deal with those dilemmas. Since the novel starts with a leaking secret of Uncle Frank, Watson organizes the whole novel in a fast rhythm, characters in Montana 1948 does not straightforwardly declare their attitudes to Frank and the influences on them. Hence, to allow readers to understand each character better, Watson applies the rhetorical techniques such as symbolism and parallelism to further expressed the characters’ underline personalities and inner mind through characters’ dialogues.

I found it especially helpful to me that he explained to us about the two parties in Congress, Republicans

James Green discusses in his speech the possibility of there being life beyond earth. Green starts off with a quote that is used in a lot of movies, books and television shows, “Is there life beyond earth in our solar system?” He follows this initial quote with one by Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, “It takes extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims.” It is important for Green to use these two quotes as attention getters. He hooks the listener with his works and we begin to think if there really is life in our solar system then just on earth.

In his New York Times article “A Life Beyond Do What You Love” Gordon Marino poses the question "But is do what you love wisdom or malarkey?" after giving us an anecdote about students coming to him for career advice. The article which uses many rhetorical devices which make the audience think about their choices in careers and what you should and want to do. The author also cites different sources for his article and past life experiences. Marino then end his article by saying many great leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. did not pursue what he loved, but what was right and what would better society around him, prompting the audience yet again to think about their own choices. Marino effectively argues that doing what is needed should be seen as more important than doing what one love with the use of rhetorical questions, anecdote, hypophora and procatalepsis.

“The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.” Erwin Chemerinsky in his short story brought students to the milestone in their lives. He noted three pieces of advice in the beginning of the next chapter of life. They are: find happiness, the pothole theory of life, and be nice. In his first piece of advice, he mentioned about finding a job that you really love. The pothole theory of life talks about the coming problems in the road of life and how you could look at them so that you don’t waste the days granted. The last piece of advice presents the one prominent feature of a personality. He emphasizes on niceness that you interact with each person and kindness causes you to feel

Wallace elaborates on these truths by stating that we all know them already. Individuals have hear the folklore and cliches. We know the lessons and morals behind them and easily can identify them. The reason why we still tend to still incorrectly do things is because the true task is not remembering the cliches but keeping the morals at the forefront of our minds at all times. The difficulty of these parables are digging out the truths or the “skeletons” of them and keeping these truths on top of our daily consciousness.

of their topic. The article uses real-life examples of people questioning or deciding to change

The speaker is clearly intending to motivate the audience to achieve higher. This is clear as the entirety of the speech is dedicated to him trying to motivate everyone to shoot for perfection and stop fearing failure.