Rhetorical Analysis Of Why Literature Matters By Dana Gioia

While in a debate Donald trump and Barack Obama, Donald asks what is the true meaning of rhetoric. I said “Mr. Trump, Rhetoric is a language which has persuasive content which is a form of lying but also lacks meaning or truthfulness.” He then asked me to give an example of rhetoric and I said “approaching a clerk at a store and they ask will you help support Donald trump’s campaign by adding $5 to your total amount.” Trump said would please provide a definition for rhetor, and I said yes but with a slight agitation in my voice because of the way he is asking me the questions. I said “a rhetor is someone who is speaking in the language of rhetoric”. Trump asked for an example and I said “a rhetor is like a salesman.”

In “Why Rhetoric Is Important in My Writing” by Elizabeth Jimenez, she describes how rhetoric is powerful in writing and how to use rhetoric effectively. According to Jimenez, “…rhetoric generally means the study and use of persuasive communication (or argument) …” (Jimenez 44), persuading an audience to influence “action” is powerful writing. Using rhetoric effectively means using academic arguments in writing which is a method used to compare views on controversial topics and allows students to persuade the audience of their view by using supporting evidence. Group activities is another method that increases the effectiveness of rhetoric by letting the students collaborate on paper topics and exchange views through academic conversation.

Most people today don’t see any importance or interest in reading Shakespeare. A lot of people think this because it’s simply “too difficult to understand” or “too much effort”. However, Michael Mack, a college professor, speaks on the contrary to a class of college freshmen. Mack develops an effective argument that reading shakespeare is worth the effort at the end, through his use of rhetorical devices and counterclaims.

The negative diction that Gioia expresses lets his argument linger in the readers mind. The harsh word choice also maintains the ongoing importance and critical outcomes that may follow. Gioia states that as "more Americans lose this [reading] capability, our nation becomes less informed, active and independent minded." Gioia uses "less" and "lose" to show the declining factor that non-literary readers bring.

On the surface, relationships seem important for guidance, support and love, but when an individual depends too strongly on his or her relationships he or she begins to subconsciously nurture pain and sorrow. All four novels demonstrate the internal torment caused by heavy dependency on relationships and the abundance of suffering linked to this reliance. Each author incorporates rhetorical strategies to ensure that their message is grasped by the reader. They are all able to uncover the truth about destructive relationships and convey the emotional issues caused by

This ad from the magazine Backpacker shows off a letter from a Subaru owner, along with a photo of a Subaru Outback on a snowy road labelled “OUTBACK RD”. All the elements in this ad help to promote three iconic ideas about Subaru and the cars that they make. The trees are heavily weighed down with snow as if a huge blizzard has passed through the area. The ground and road are also covered with several feet of snow. This suggests to the viewer that the Subaru Outback performs very well in the snow and on extreme terrains in general. Secondly the whole ad is dominated by giant pine trees and forest. The tops of the trees are not even visible. This suggests that someone who owns a Subaru Outback also

Throughout this article Gioia is able to maintain the audience's attention by backing up his claims with reliable sources. For example in the second paragraph he states “the declining percentage of Americans, especially young adults, reading literature… According to the 2002 survey of Public Participation in the Arts.” By using this technique successfully the author is able to make claims to support his statements

INTRO PARAGRAPH: The author of the piece “Why Literature Matters”, Dana Gioia, builds a strong argument in favor of why reading literature matters so much, even in today’s technologically advanced and electronically centered environment. Gioia’s piece, (written in 2005), spoke volumes upon the the idea that even Albert Einstein once prophesied. “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction.

Being a reader means you’re more likely to learn something new every day; William Lyon Phelps is an enthusiast of reading. In his speech The Pleasure of Books he writes to persuade everyone to read, “Books are for use, not for show; you should own no book that you are afraid to mark up, or afraid to place on the table, wide open and face down.” When Phelps wrote this speech the time period was the middle ages when German students gathered in Berlin to burn books with “un-German” ideas. The speech itself is telling the readers and listeners that books provide knowledge, and they are an advantage that we have as humans. Reading is fundamental for a human being, and are written for you to read. In The Pleasure of Books, William

Many different authors and writers use different styles and techniques to engage and persuade the intended audience of their work. Writers try to establish a good connection with the readers to cause the readers to believe their claims. For a writer to be able to engage their reader and keep their attention is a very important engagement strategies. In the book “They Say, I say,” two authors have their writing inside and they use different strategies to engage and persuade their readers. The first writer is Gladwell. Gladwell writes about how technology will not be the reason for social change in the world. The other writings strategies being evaluated is Foer. Foer writes about how he is against eating meat and his own personal evidence and

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” Margaret Heffernen, stresses out on this quote, the need for plausible arguments and smart conflicts that generates successful ideas and modernization of the mind. Similarly, when in writing persuasive, the main purpose of the literary work is to convince others to agree with facts a values, accept arguments and conclusions, and embrace the writer’s way of thinking.

Anthony Giddens lecture on globalization informed his audience about the dangers of globalization and the effect it has on the world. Giddens explained an event that happened to a friend that studied village life in Africa. The friend did fieldwork hoping to learn about the traditional pastimes of the community. Instead, the evening turned into a viewing of Basic Instinct, an American movie. This event got Giddens to think that small things such as traditions are being abandoned by the globalization happening around the world.

Deliberative civic education is broadly conceived as instruction that utilizes varying forms of classroom deliberation and deliberative exercises to enhance the democratic skills of citizenship and to increase understanding of democratic practice. The purpose of this essay is to explore how the contemporary, critical elements of rhetorical study might be applied to the promise of deliberative civic education in college classrooms. I argue for the importance of incorporating critical dimensions of deliberative civic education into the liberal arts curriculum by explicating the tensions that exist between ideal, structured forms of deliberation and the actual practices of democracy. The notion of civil society, understood as both a site of rhetorical

Author J. K. Rowling, in her 2008 Harvard Commencement speech, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination”, emphasizes that failing is okay and touches upon the importance of imagination. Rowling’s purpose is to convey her views on failure and why imagination is so vital on those in attendance, and any who may hear this speech. J. K. Rowling expresses her points by utilizing rhetorical strategies such as, but not limited to, humor and irony.

In this essay there are several things that I have analyzed in a rhetorical manner. I first analyzed the reliability, dependability, and credibility of the authors of the article as well as the journal itself. I then continued by analyzing the rhetorical situation of the journal. This will include my analyzation of the context it was written in, the intended audience, and purpose it was written for. After this I analyzed the main arguments and/or points made by the authors of this journal and the effectiveness of the evidence provided to support these arguments/points. I then analyzed the rhetorical appeals made by authors of this journal. I did this by first looking at the ethos of the journal which is the evidence the authors provide of their credibility. To further my analysis of the rhetorical appeals, I then analyzed the pathos -the emotional appeal- of the journal and the logos -logic/statistic- of the journal. Lastly, I discussed how effective this article was to me as a reader and concluded my findings.