Rhetorical+Analysis+Essay

 1. //President Barack Obama’s speech to Cairo University June 09-excerpts // 2. //Gettysburg Address // by Abraham Lincoln/John F. Kennedy inaugural speech excerpts 3. //A Modest Proposal // by Jonathan Swift (Satire) 4. Mark Anthony's funeral oration from the Shakespeare play //Julius Caesar// (Fiction) 5. Brutus's funeral oration from the Shakespeare play //Julius Caesar// (Fiction)
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/edit_nopermission.png height="37" caption="Protected"]]Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Instructions. · Choose one selection from the above list of rhetorical texts ·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Read it again, this time highlighting words, phrases, sentences that are especially rhetorically effective (persuasive, convincing, emotional and/or logical). Determine whether the piece relies primarily on logos, pathos, or ethos, or a combination of these rhetorical devices. ·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Include __at least__ three direct quotations (put them in quotation marks) in your essay that lend support to your analysis and ideas. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Impact, sans-serif;">Organize and type a 5-paragraph essay based <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: Impact, sans-serif;">EXACTLY <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Impact, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Impact, sans-serif;">on the following model: <span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> 1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Introduction **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> paragraph that mentions the name of the piece and the author as well as whether the writer relies mainly on LOGOS, PATHOS, ETHOS or a combination to create a persuasive argument or assertion. You should also state an overall opinion about how effective you think the writing is in terms of persuasiveness, intelligence, organization of ideas, and clarity of ideas. Write a thesis statement with three parts (diction, tone, and syntax).
 * <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">* **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sample introduction & thesis statement: In Jonathan Swift’s satirical masterpiece, __A Modest Proposal__, the reader is presented with a horrid concept using extremely effective language and logos; Swift uses strong diction, logical tone, and complex syntax to convince readers that eating children will solve all the social problems in 19th century Ireland.

2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Diction body paragraph **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (word choice/word connotations)-this first body paragraph should have a topic sentence about the writer's word choices as being effective and persuasive. Writer’s choose words based not only on their dictionary definition (denotation) but also on their associated meanings or connections that readers think of when they see certain words (connotations). In your body paragraph on diction, you must provide "evidence" from the piece to show or prove the effectiveness of the writer’s or speaker’s particular word choices. Diction can involve both LOGOS and PATHOS.

3.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Tone body paragraph **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (tone=emotions and attitudes of the writer/speaker and the emotional effect on the reader/hearer)-this body paragraph should have a topic sentence about how the writer creates a certain mood, or tone, or attitude in the piece by the words he has chosen. Use as evidence words/phrases from the piece that you feel demonstrate how the writer gets a reaction out of the reader/hearer. Choose examples that are powerful and emotional. Tone is tied directly to the concept of PATHOS.

4.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Syntax **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> **body paragraph**(syntax=how the words are put together-this includes types of sentences, length of sentences, punctuation, parallelism, and repetition)-your last body paragraph should have a topic sentence about how the writer puts words together in a certain way to have a strong persuasive impact on the reader/hearer. Choose evidence/examples from the piece that you feel demonstrate this concept, such as where the writer uses repetition, or uses punctuation to manipulate the reader's impressions.

5.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Conclusion **<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">-this paragraph reiterates or rephrases the topic and overall states how persuasive you think the writing is that you analyzed in the body paragraphs of your essay. You can state your overall opinion in the conclusion. Did the writing convince you? Emotionally affect you? Open your eyes to new or different perspectives? ||

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