A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Onion

Rhetorical Analysis Marketing companies are increasingly venturing into absurd methods to market products. In our consumer oriented society, the public’s gullibility is optimized by the marketing industry’s power. The Onion, a publication devoted to humor and satire, derides how products are marketed to consumers in order to illustrate the absurdity of marketing strategies. The Onion utilizes testimonials and clever diction to satirize the methods availed by marketers. The Onion presents personal testimonials to mock how marketers employ false claims from allegedly real customers to sell their product. Helene Kuhn mentions she twisted her ankle but after seven short weeks with MagnaSoles, she “noticed a significant decrease in pain “and