Nuclear Threat Rhetorical Devices

Nuclear threat is a scary topic that no one wants to hear or read about. Yet, it is currently spreading all over the world through every media source making it hard to ignore. The main point of this paper is to not focus only on nuclear threat, but to instead pay close attention to how different authors are using certain genres to talk about the importance of nuclear threat and the different techniques they use to inform the audience. They use techniques to attract those that are interested in the security of the nation to read their works, and for them to learn new things in regard to current nuclear threat events. In short, authors use features to make their genre unique such as structure, word choice, and rhetorical devices because it allows
Authors have an option of using logos, ethos, and pathos, which helps attract the audience by using logic, credibility, and emotion in their writing. The NYT article, “ As Nuclear Security Summit Begins, Materials Remain Vulnerable to Theft” achieves this goal by implementing pathos. Sanger and Broad remark, “…especially in Belgium, where the attacks last week killed more than 30 people” (New York Times). This helps ensure that the audience feels sympathy for the victims and are aware of the importance of a nuclear threat. By using pathos the writers emotionally manipulate the audience and engage them to know more about the importance of nuclear threat. Writers are selective about the evidence that they use in their writing to make sure it has a positive impact in their story. Providing selective evidence that appeals to the audience emotions is one of the most used techniques. Every person feels sympathy to horrible situations such as the attacks in Belgium, therefore the writers decided to use evidence as this to hook people who are interested in the security of the nation. Including the bombings in Belgium aftermath was a very strategic move because every person has feelings and what better way to engage them than by getting them teary. On the other hand, the blog, “Doctors should still care about the threat of nuclear weapons” uses ethos to give the story credibility. His
Selecting a specific set of words helps the author build a connection with the reader. In the blog, “Doctors should still care about the threat of nuclear weapons” by Juan Carlos uses simple diction. The selection of words that he chose are sufficient to inform the audience that nuclear weapons can have a great impact in the world. “If you have ever heard enough about global warming, you are probably not aware of its equality evil twin, nuclear war” ( CMAJ. ca). Juan Carlos used simple vocabulary to explain the topic in a faster and more efficient way, instead of using long dense words. He keeps it simple because what would be the point of writing and reading a long report if it were too hard to comprehend by the general public. Also, in the blog “Defusing the Nuclear Threat”, the author’s word choice is straightforward and helps get the message across to the audience that nuclear threat is important, and that they should take part in dismantling the issue. His selection of words is understandable for the concerned audience to comprehend gaining more peoples attention to the readable story. Throughout his blog Hellman uses a series of contractions, “Imagine that a man wearing a TNT vest were to come into the room and, before you could escape, managed to tell you that he wasn't a suicide bomber” (nuclearrisk.org). He does this because this type of writing is a blog and not an essay