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Rhetorical Analysis Of Dick In A Box By Justin Timberlake
Rhetorical appeals; ethos, logos, and pathos are used in the artifact to influence that audience to agree with the given position. In a meme, pathos is the most apparent appeal applicable. To invoke an emotion of happiness in the form of humor is the driving purpose among memes. The humor of my meme is ridiculing dick jokes; good for the entire family. Also, by referencing Saturday Night Live’s “Dick in a Box” by Justin Timberlake there is an understanding of what I am trying to depict in the meme; and an added humor imaging that trump is in the box for the entire short skit. By getting the audience to laugh at Trump they; the audience, are more inclined to at least acknowledge the message and maybe share it with others. However, because I

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