Rhetorical Strategies Of Montetesquieu And Baudelaire

In late 19th century Paris, cafés-concerts (best described as “glorified beer halls” (Clark 206)) were a very popular destination for the people of Paris. Cafés-concerts became an integral part of Parisian social life, as they were visited by hundreds of people each night, regardless of class. A bar at the Folies Bergère became the topic of Edouard Manet’s last painting, as Manet tried to portray the new, “modern” Paris, and the introduction of mass production during this time. A Marxist art historian, T.J. Clark finds this particular painting important because it revealed a lot about the new, modern Paris, and Manet’s intentions with the painting. Clark focuses more on the emergence of the new social class during this time, and how this affected the role of women in Paris. The painting, A bar at Folies Bergère, has historical significance because of how it depicts modernity in the context of the emergence of a new social class (the petite bourgeoisie), the introduction of mass production, and the changing role of women.

Rhetorical devices are devices that are used to convey a meaning to the reader and create emotions through different types of language. Elie Wiesel uses rhetorical devices such as personification, metaphors, and rhetorical questions to emphasize and establish the theme of losing faith.

John Humphrys is very irritated that the writing he knows is been spoiled by people who are using slag and abbreviations when communicating. He believes that writing has been wrecked in a huge manner as all that he though was right is now not considered in writing. He is also afraid that even in some areas where he thought that writing should be official and all the rules followed, a lot of the texting slag is used. As he states, people use the abbreviations to take care of time and use the shortest time possible to communicate. But instead this is not true since there are a big percentage of people who take time to understand the meaning of the abbreviations but some even fail to understand the meaning or misinterpret them after they have wasted a lot of time. Therefore Humphrys is determined to convincing people that texting has affected the proper way of writing. John Humphrys used the different strategies of rhetorical persuasion to persuade his audience and make it believe that what he is arguing about is true.

Not only does Le Guin apply rhetorical appeals in her speech, but she also incorporates a multitude of rhetorical devices, such as sententia and antithesis. Le Guin utilizes sententia when she states, “Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure” (Le Guin line 30). Le Guin attempts to tear down separation by gender and bring people together on common ground by concluding that males and females are both bound to face failure because everyone is simply human. To this end, she aims to halt comparison between genders as well as the notion that women are always secondary to men. In effect, Le Guin follows up with the rhetorical device antithesis to build upon her use of sententia. Le Guin uses antithesis in this section to help her emphasize the point: “You will find you’re weak where you thought yourself strong” (Le Guin lines 31-32). Her illustration of antithesis further exemplifies the notion that gender does not matter when it comes to the struggles and failures of life, which all humans, regardless of gender, indisputably face. Le Guin ultimately deploys the rhetorical devices sententia and antithesis in unison to end contrast and conflict between genders and unite men and women alike.

Elie Wiesel uses many different styles to present his main purpose, one of the most widely used is anaphora. He does this to help the audience further develop a context of the situations Wiesel went through as a child. Wiesel asserts, “ They no longer feel pain, hunger, thirst. They feared nothing. They felt nothing. They were dead and did not know it,” this creates a reaction of the audience to feel sympathy for the “musselmanners” that were left to die, it also forces the audience to imagine the horrific details of Wiesel’s childhood. Furthermore, towards the end of his speech to change tones to appeal to the audience while he questions the American government on why they chose not to intervene. He then creates another tonal shift, patronizing

In 1791, Benjamin Banneker, the son of former slaves, writes to Thomas Jefferson, hoping to convince him and other supporters of slavery that supporting the institution of slavery is hypocritical. Drawing comparisons between the colonies under Great Britain and the enslavement and oppression of African Americans in the United States, he reminds Jefferson that America’s newly acquired freedom was a blessing granted by Heaven. Banneker utilizes a civil and courteous tone, religious allusions, and analogies to convey his feelings on slavery to urge Jefferson to take advantage of the power and position he has to work towards ending slavery.

You’re coming home from one of the worst dates of your life. It was just you and your date at a high end restaurant. Your date asked you “Have you ever read Shakespeare?”. You pondered and said “No, I have not.”. Your date got up and left you sitting there at the booth, alone, by yourself. Such as Michael Mack, a professor at the CUA, has stated, “Read Shakespeare and spare yourself a world of bad dates.” What DOES Mack mean by saying this, though? In his speech, “Why Read Shakespeare?” he delves into why exactly a regular person like you or I should read Shakespeare at all. Through his use of counterclaims and rhetorical devices, Mack constructs an effective argument stating that though Shakespeare is hard work, it’s worth the effort.

The novel, Night, authored by Elie Wiesel, tells a story about how a child named Eliezer survives the Holocaust along side his fighting father. In the end, death confronts Eliezer's father and steals him away. Judy (Weissenberg) Cohen, a survivor of the Holocaust, also goes through these treacherous trials and shares them in her speech. She describes the dreadful events she witnessed and how it scares her of the evil mankind holds. Both, Elie and Judy, use different rhetorical strategies to express their thoughts and views of what they experienced and witnessed in the Holocaust.

From the moment James Baldwin was born up until his father’s death, it was crystal clear that the two did not see eye to eye, much more like bumped heads. Baldwin often stated how he had grown to hate this man he called a father who was described as a cruel and arbitrary menace from not just individuals in his neighborhood, but his very own children as well. As the story progresses, Baldwin’s boiled up hate and ordeals of bigotry in his new hometown gradually began to affect not only his mindset, but his attitude towards individuals around him. With the use of rhetorical strategies, Baldwin is able to characterize his father with persuasive appeals, express their complex relationship with tone, and depict the connection between both him and

Firstly, the writer portrays the world of children through the first person narrative which encapsulates young Leo’s fresh, spontaneous optimism and hope towards the dawning of a new era, ‘My dreams for the twentieth century, and for myself, were coming true’(Chapter 1. p. 28). Therefore, this device allows the reader direct access to the intensity yet simplicity of a child’s point of view and enhances Leo’s personal

Grenouille is further conveyed as a victim of social decay when upper class supposedly high ranked and highly respected people are portrayed as fools and almost idiots. Through Comic Irony Father Terrier is seen as an uneducated fool and childish when using the phrase “poohpeedooh”. The repetition of this phrase further illustrates the foolish nature of a highly respected person showing social decay. Moreover, presenting the upper class in France as silly and foolish shows the decay of society and how even foolish people such as Father Terrier are respected and looked up to making Grenouille a victim to this social decay as well as an outsider as he does not respect these foolish upper class people and does not follow the demands of society.

In Night, the Holocaust memoir by Nobel prize winning author, Elie Wiesel, Wiesel uses specific rhetorical strategies to build off each other and make one massive, intricate idea that portrays his thoughts in a way that not only describes the brutality of the war, but also so it explains how drastically it affected an entire generation. Wiesel’s use of haunting word choice and sentence structure, to create a detailed, albeit horrifying picture of the holocaust that will help to prevent people from committing such crime for years to come.

When I first heard the name Charles Baudelaire a few weeks ago, I just thought of him as another historical author that we had to learn about in an English class. Little did I know, how his work would affect me in the next weeks. Baudelaire coined the term modernity which was a period of ongoing change and transition to urban and industrial life. As a person who believes technology is destroying communication skills, it was interesting to see how Baudelaire faced the same troubles through urbanization instead of technology. A piece of Baudelaire’s piece that stood out to me was The Eyes of the Poor in his famous work called Paris Spleen. Baudelaire used the word ‘spleen’ in his work to show a sense of disgust with everything.

In this monarchical view of the poet’s “throne” that is seen in the sky, Baudelaire is presenting his view of the true divinity of humanity through the eyes of a creator. This is an important part of the aristocratic and anti-republican view of the French government, which made Baudelaire an enemy of the state. Baudelaire did not believe in democracy or republican values because he felt that humanity was too corrupted and hypocritical to manage such as an advanced form of government. These are important aspects of Baudelaire’s political views that define the undermining

Charles Baudelaire chooses to begin his work with a child’s curiosity with maps and the vastness of the world. In the eyes of a