Rhetorical Analysis The Lights Are Going Out

Throughout the passage, the author utilizes unique words and phrases to discuss and elaborate the

author’s point of view. By using dictions that contrast with one another, the author also revealed the

solutions for the problem. The poetic devices that he used through the entire essay, was an interesting

way to convey his argument.

In the first paragraph, the author first hooked the reader using a different form of writing technique,

poetic device, to proceed to deeper information in the following paragraphs. The metaphor for freedom,

stating “the lights are going out” gives an interesting overview to the issue. The author uses a

contrasting phrase in the third paragraph “arose into the brad light of day”, allowing the audience to

reasonably
He does this first by asking questions such as “Is this a call to war?” and “Does anyone

pretend that Preparation for resistance to aggression is unleashing war?”. Not only do these questions

take the audiences to think twice on this issue, but it also rebuts to possible arguments for his essay.

This technique solidifies the author’s stance in the issue, even while referencing to other possible

perspectives. In addition, the author finishes the final paragraph using another metaphor, such as

“banish from all our lives the fear which already darkens the sunlight to hundreds of millions of men!”.

As seen from this context, the author carries on with his first metaphor for “light” to conclude his

argument. This shows that the author’s emphasis on his argument could be found with the “light”,

which symbolizes liberty and freedom. Restatement of his argument using this poetic device gave

stronger impression to the audience

Lastly, the repetition provides more of poetic impression to the entire essay. In the fourth paragraph of

his passage, sentence starter for describing the mighty communities is “Like the communists…”.