Kay March Rhetorical Devices

March uses many devices in her essay to connect with her audience; she uses pathos to pull at the heart-strings of her readers. Considering her target audience is women she tries to connect with them by recounting all the steps that she and the women in her family took to try to get Hillary elected. She also tells many stories of the struggle for women’s rights. March writes, “My grandmother was born three years after white women win suffrage and died just days after casting her absentee ballot for Hillary...”. The Communication Assessment Learning Lab says this about the use of pathos, “The ability to tap into audience’s emotions can evoke feelings of connectedness and evoke the motivation to act and prescribe to the speaker’s thoughts and