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BA5 Rhetorical Analysis What is Rhetoric How you say what you say The tools a writer uses to convince hisher audience A rhetorical analysis seeks to discuss the effectiveness of these tools on a particular audience ID: 589445

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Tips For Success

BA5: Rhetorical AnalysisSlide2

What is Rhetoric?

How

you say what you say.

The tools a writer uses to convince his/her audience.

A rhetorical analysis seeks to discuss the effectiveness of these tools on a particular audience.Slide3

Ethos, Logos, Pathos

Ethos

Ethos: the persuasive power of the writer’s credibility or character

Credentials, pedigree, record, trustworthiness, experience

Tone: professional, sarcastic, mean-spirited, looking down, generous, neutral, etc.

Logos

Logos: the persuasive power of the author’s reasoning, evidence, and logic

Numbers, statistics, examples, historical evidence, explanations

Pathos

Pathos: the persuasive power of the author’s appeal to interests, emotion, and imagination

Emotional language, pleas, personal examples

Using fear

Using references to the past, nostalgia

Using emotionally loaded words and phrase: liberty, peace, freedom Slide4

Linguistic Tools

Diction: Word Choice

Big words vs. small words; using a specific lexicon or lingo, or is the language plain and easy to understand by everyone (This might tell you something about audience.).

Repetition

Alliteration: repetition of beginning sounds

Anaphora: repetition of beginning phrases

Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds

Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds

Parallelism: arrangement of structures that are similar in form

Figurative Language

Metaphor: ______ is _______

Simile: _______ is like ______

Personification: Human characteristics to inanimate objects

Paradox: statement that seems contradictory but turns out to be true

Why do writers use these linguistic tools to convince you? Why are they effective?Slide5

BA5: How to Begin

Determine the text’s claims.

What is the writer trying to get you to believe?

About what does the writer want your agreement?

Narrow Your Topic: Which rhetorical strategies is the writer using?

Do not

point out every single rhetorical device the writer uses.

Instead, point out

two or three

strategies that seem particularly effective or ineffective. For example:

Clarity, including clear reasoning and direct language

Emotion, including fear, nostalgia, and emotionally loaded words

Literary devices such as metaphor and simile

Logical support, including historical evidence and statistics

Written structure, including diction, parallelism, and repetitionSlide6

Introduction

Your introduction should give a one or two sentence summary of your article.

Include the writer’s name and the title.

You might give the context for which the article was written.

For some occasion? In response to some event?

You might also talk about the reactions of readers to the article. (you = readers)

Surprised by use of language? Surprised by tone? Offended? Find it humorous? Slide7

Thesis

Your thesis will list 1) the rhetorical tools you’ll discuss, as well as 2) the writer’s purpose and 3) the effectiveness of those tools in achieving that purpose. (You can be complimentary, critical, or both.)

The writer uses

clear reasoning

and

direct language

to convince readers that it is important to wash their hands before eating dinner. This combination creates an effective argument due to its simplicity and clarity.

Although the writer uses

clear reasoning

and

direct language

to attempt to convince readers to wash their hands before eating dinner, the writer’s sarcastic

tone

may cause readers to disregard his advice.

While the writer attempts to convince readers of the importance of washing their hands before dinner, his lack of

logical support, including statistics

and pertinent historical examples

, leaves his argument thin. It is unlikely readers will heed his advice. Slide8

The Body of your Essay

Should discuss each of the rhetorical tools you’ve chosen.

Point them out by quoting.

Then tell WHY they are effective. Why did the writer use this tool and not some other?

Moreover, you’ll need to discuss the writer’s assumptions about the topic or the audience.

Who does the writer believe his audience to be?

Is he/she leaving anyone out?

Can his/her tone be misread? Offensive to the audience?Slide9

Remember . . .

Read the assignment description and specific questions for your article in Raider Writer.

Use in-text citations.

Give a Works Cited.

Refer to writers by their last names.

Avoid excessive summary.

Write in present tense.

Use transitional phrases in between your sentences and to reduce choppiness and increase flow and readability.Slide10

For Next Monday

Begin thinking about your 2.1. What issue would like to argue for or against?

Choose some aspect of your Literature Review?

Start over with a completely new topic?