Rhetorical Devices In The Onion

“Make your marketing so useful people would pay for it”(Baer). Marketers use wild variations of strategies to appeal to their consumers, which materializes ridicule among marketing companies. Commercialized businesses accommodate useful tactics to appeal to their audience. In a mock press conference, MagnaSoles, “magical” shoe inserts, are analyzed humorously. In their humorous press release to the public, The Onion perceives the marketing industry in a satirical way by explaining their purpose of effectively using the rhetorical devices ethos, logos, and pathos.

Lars Eighner represents the thousands of homeless people that have simply fallen victim of financial struggles, holding strongly onto his respect for others, his community, and himself, despite the difficulties he faces. According to Eighner’s website, he spent time at the University of Austin, Texas studying creative writing, which is clear through his writing techniques and narrative style. However after falling on hard times, Eighner ended up homeless. While homeless in the late 80’s Eighner composed the essay “On Dumpster Diving.” It need not take long for one to find his purpose in writing the essay. Dumpster diving and homelessness are deeply connected to a notion of poor life choices, mental illness, and substance abuse. And while Eighner doesn’t deny that many people he encounters are “winos,” Eighner’s purpose is to represent dumpster diving, in sense, as an art; reclaiming homelessness as “a modern form of self reliance.”

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

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.

The song "American Pie', by Don McLean, was a dominate rock-and-roll hit in 1971. McLean illustrates famous rock star artist and songwriter Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash in 1962 by using rhetorical strategies. The different potential interpretations of this song made it one of the most controversial songs from the 1970's. McLean was hitting home with many emotional resonances defining moments in the recent American experiences.

Rhetorical devices are elements embedded in a piece of work that allow the viewer to fully interpret and engage with the content presented. Rhetorical elements can be used universally through various mediums. In this essay I will be analyzing a photograph, specifically addressing the images logos, pathos, and Telos. The photograph frames your not so typical geriatric couple complete with skateboards and their flying birds. The caption of the photo is “This couple sticking it to the man”. This ironic photo packs a strong central message of living young wild and free. The unknown photographer develops the central message through the use of rhetorical deceives.

In an age of rising consumerism, consumers are engulfed in their gullibility and fall into the scheme of false marketers. As a result, in the 1999 publication, The Onion, it issued a parody press release about the fictional “MagnaSoles” to show marketer ploys on consumer gullibility. To achieve this satire, the publication uses a satirical tone and criticizes the credibility of ads to reveal the fallacy and manipulative power of the industrial world.

In her expose, Nickel and Dime, Barbara Ehrenreich shares her experience of what it is like for unskilled women to be forced to be put into the labor market after the welfare reform that was going on in 1998. Ehrenreich wanted to capture her experience by retelling her method of “uncover journalism” in a chronological order type of presentation of events that took place during her endeavor. Her methodologies and actions were some what not orthodox in practice. This was not to be a social experiment that was to recreate a poverty social scenario, but it was to in fact see if she could maintain a lifestyle working low wage paying jobs the way 4 million women were about to experience it. Although Ehrenreich makes good

The New Yorker is a celebrated magazine that is known for its reporting, essays, and political commentary. Its exemplary status is also attributed to its cartoons and illustrative covers, which are often satirical reinterpretations of current affairs. The demographic of the people who read the New Yorker provides a clue as to the whom the advertisement’s target audience is. They tend to be on the liberal spectrum, mostly college educated people in their early 30s to late 50s.

Do you have sore feet and feel like there is nothing that can stop or prevent your foot pain? MagnaSoles are new shoe inserts for people just like you who have sore feet! Did you fall for these tactics? Companies use these marketing tactics everyday to convince people just like you to buy their product. In The Onion’s press release, the author demonstrates the use of the rhetorical triangle, bold diction and syntax, and vivid imagery to explain how Americans fall for marketing tactics companies use.

The purpose of the novel, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, is to inform the public of issues pertaining to low wage jobs through the three rhetorical devices ,such as, pathos, logos , and ethos. Ehrenreich emerges herself into the life of a low wage worker to demonstrate the difficulty of living a healthy life under these conditions. She includes the rhetoric devices to create a persuasive argument and to gather support for her claim. The minimum wage is too low, enabling the working class from living a healthy life. She studies this issue through an experiment of one month of living on just a salary from low wage jobs.

In the cartoon by Dan Ziger it shows that the students from Asia are required to go to school year round while american students do not value education as much as the asian culture does. The author used rhetorical devices to come across his message of the cartoon. Exaggeration in the cartoon was used by showing that “all” american students are not prepared for school and do not value school like Asian countries do. Also the american students shirt had words misspelled which also kind of says how american students are in school, There was also an analogy in the cartoon which was comparing an american student to the students in asia and comparing how the american student gets a summer break and the student in asia are required to go to school

The style of diction the author uses is dependent on what character is speaking. For example, when the author chooses Celie and/or the others around her to speak, the author portrays them with a slang style of diction. On the other hand, when the author chooses for Nettie and/or the others around her to speak, the author portrays them with a colloquial and slight formal style of diction. Based on the diction, I believe the intended audience is any individual who can relate to the characters. The book uses strong words in order to not hide its reality.

The scream rips through the night, but is silenced very quickly. Frantic neighbors get police, when police arrive they notice that the screen door is ripped. They walk in and see that the couple has not only had their throats slashed, but head bashed with an axe. Police know the Axeman has struck again. This podcast explores the Axeman murders using rhetorical devices and narration.

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