Rhetorical Elements
Prof. Lilley used the image of a godzilla-style monster to represent this rhetorical element.
What is Exigence?
Bui's family is from this country.
What is Viet Nam?
The story takes place by a river in this country.
What is the Sudan?
In this kind of society, the birth of a girl is not celebrated or welcomed.
What is a patriarchal society?
This big greenish lady, stationed in the New York Harbor, welcomes newcomers to the United States.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This rhetorical element often is expressed as an infinitive verb with a "to," as in "to explain."
What is Purpose?
The family lived in this mid-Western state when they first came to the United States.
What is Indiana?
The American man is reluctant to cross the river for this reason.
He cut his shin and he is worried an exotic parasite or microbe from the river will get into the wound and he will get sick and die.
Yousafzai had trouble remembering this about his own sisters.
What is their last names?
This large obelisk in Washington, D.C. is named for the first president of the United States.
What is the Washington Monument?
This rhetorical element shows who the author had in mind when he or she wrote the text.
What is relevance/audience?
Bui's parents spoke this European language.
What is French?
What is biking?
Yousafzai named his daughter after this heroic freedom fighter in Afghanistan.
Who is Malalai (or Malala)?
Every year on the Fourth of July, Nathan's, a restaurant in New York City, holds a contest to see who can eat the most of this American food.
What are hot dogs?
This rhetorical element is usually expressed as an abstract noun, such as "love" or "freedom" or "courage."
What is key concept/theme?
In the Viet Nam War, the United States supported this part of the country.
What is the South?
The American man eventually is ferried across the river in a canoe through the services of this man.
Who is a fisherman?
Because of her campaign for the right to an education for girls, this happened to Malala.
What is the Taliban shooting her in the head?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This rhetorical elements says what the text is about, as if you were describing it to Prof. Lilley's Aunt Patty.
What is object of study?
Despite all the trauma they experienced, Bui and her siblings excelled at this when they came to the United States.
What is school?
The Sudanese friend and the fisherman speak this language.
What is Dinka?
Yousafzai says that this is the reason Malala is so courageous and poised.
What is he "did not clip her wings, and that's all."
This U.S. president helped keep the country together during the Civil War and was six-feet four-inches tall.
Who was President Lincoln?