People Who Are Destroying America Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Iuliia Stanley
Prof. Chad Day
ENG 102
9/16/2013
Rhetorical Analysis: People Who Are Destroying America
Stephen Colbert is an American political satirist writer/television host. On Aug 15 the author made a sarcastic video titled “People Destroying America” about losing traditional moral values in the United States. The Colbert’s Report’s sarcastic parody is not factual for religious people because it goes against their original morals and values. Yet this caricature parody is effective for people with different sexual orientation because gay Mayor Johnny Cummings helps Vicco, KY to become the smallest U.S. town to pass LGBT fairness ordinance, that allows gays to have equal rights. On June 30 this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed …show more content…
Colbert uses connotative language, for example, he uses gay stamps for town people who are not gays. Also, in the beginning of the video, when they showed a map of USA, big states (California, Florida) were gone, because there are a lot of people with different orientation. The satiric says “We lost our big cities to gays, now we are losing our small towns.” Humorous, loud, sarcastic language was used in this video. The author uses a lot of time a word “gay”, that everything is “gay” in the town; “American traditional values are under attack”, “when it comes to fight the gay agenda, we already lost our big cities” are metaphors. In the last scene the viewers can hear and see, that Colbert is disgusted. Colbert uses this word choice to show the audience what is the reason of destroying American values in emotional way. Also some design elements features contribute to the emotional imaginative appeal of the argument. He uses bright, red, white and blue colors to reflect the patriotism in America. The graphics and images are used to persuade the audience that America is being threatened by passing this ordinance
Prof. Chad Day
ENG 102
9/16/2013
Rhetorical Analysis: People Who Are Destroying America
Stephen Colbert is an American political satirist writer/television host. On Aug 15 the author made a sarcastic video titled “People Destroying America” about losing traditional moral values in the United States. The Colbert’s Report’s sarcastic parody is not factual for religious people because it goes against their original morals and values. Yet this caricature parody is effective for people with different sexual orientation because gay Mayor Johnny Cummings helps Vicco, KY to become the smallest U.S. town to pass LGBT fairness ordinance, that allows gays to have equal rights. On June 30 this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed …show more content…
Colbert uses connotative language, for example, he uses gay stamps for town people who are not gays. Also, in the beginning of the video, when they showed a map of USA, big states (California, Florida) were gone, because there are a lot of people with different orientation. The satiric says “We lost our big cities to gays, now we are losing our small towns.” Humorous, loud, sarcastic language was used in this video. The author uses a lot of time a word “gay”, that everything is “gay” in the town; “American traditional values are under attack”, “when it comes to fight the gay agenda, we already lost our big cities” are metaphors. In the last scene the viewers can hear and see, that Colbert is disgusted. Colbert uses this word choice to show the audience what is the reason of destroying American values in emotional way. Also some design elements features contribute to the emotional imaginative appeal of the argument. He uses bright, red, white and blue colors to reflect the patriotism in America. The graphics and images are used to persuade the audience that America is being threatened by passing this ordinance