Explain how the author uses the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos in an attempt to accomplish the purpose;…
Identify and name any rhetorical devices used by the author. If none exist, explain how you determined this.…
The use of pauses by punctuations is a writing style used by Richard Connell to help generate suspense. In the story, wanted information is sometimes delayed by action. For example, in the conversation by Rainsford and General…
Let us arm! Let us fight for our brothers! Tomorrow, we shall fight for ourselves.…
Pg17- “They’ll want the war to end, they’ll want changes in our society, they’ll want to overthrow the establishment.” (War)…
The Revolutionary War leaders would attract recruits by telling a current soldier to say how his life has been impacted by the war and how his life has currently improved. Also that if you joined your social status and amount of money would increase.…
Despite the uncertainty of the legitimacy of the war, there spread the traditional message that defending one's country is a man's greatest purpose and honor. Fighting for a cause one passionately believes in is…
For example, he says, “So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love?” In this situation, Martin uses the rhetorical question to provoke a time for thinking. This is classified as a rhetorical strategy because Martin isn’t trying to receive an answer from the clergyman but make him think about the question/statement. He wants him to ponder on the idea of what kind of extremists will they be. He also says, “Will be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice.” Furthermore, he wants to make the clergyman re think everything he has said on the activities going on in Birmingham, so he says a statement that he knows will definitely leave him in uncertainty. Due to the clergyman’s position, for being that of a religious leader, Martin says, “The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his…
Cited: Bean, John C., Virginia A. Chappell, and Alice M. Gillam. Reading Rhetorically: Brief Edition. 2nd ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2007.…
[2] Brothers, we are friends; we must assist each other to bear our burdens. The blood of many of our fathers and brothers has run like water on the ground, to satisfy the avarice of the white men. We, ourselves, are threatened with a great evil; nothing will pacify them but the destruction of all the red men.…
The use of imagery is widely used through the text. It creates a sense of feeling as, if imagined you would be able to feel part of the story. Emotive Language was used as well to portray a feeling to the reader for example, “Who will save us from the Rabbits?”…
The author uses emotive language to describe the bravery of her husband and the innocence of the young girl Ayen Chol. An example of this highly emotive language throughout the article…
The World War I writings reveal a lot about the soldiers' emotional and psychological experience. The soldiers had to witness a lot terrible things and many soldiers experienced shellshock. The war caused soldiers to be alienated from society. The war forced soldiers to disregard their emotions and their civilization. The soldiers were forced to put on a false front. They had to tell people that the war was good and pretend it was an honor to fight in the war. These experiences are shown in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the movie The Great War, and the poems of Siegfried Sassoon.…
The way in which relationships are presented in these texts help to accentuate how difficult the conditions of the war were and how this affected the soldiers. Some relationships are presented in such a way as to give context and explanation to the backgrounds of the characters, which distinguish certain contrasts between them, helping to further portray how terrible the conditions in the war were. There are different types of relationships presented throughout these texts, some of which stress desperation to survive, and others which add to the emotional indifferences suffered by some of the soldiers.…
In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway demonstrates the unforeseeable reality of war to develop the theme fear is found among all soldiers. Through the use of similes, Hemingway describes soldiers’ initial reactions to uncertain events while in war. For example, Hemingway writes, “There was a cough, a noise like a railway engine starting and then an explosion that shook the earth again,” (54). By comparing the blast to an engine, Hemingway describes how unexpected it was. The sound of a railway engine can be frightening if it is not…