choices and methods
how they appeal to the EPL
Analysis
intended audience
message to the audience/purpose
100

What Rhetorical choices are common among franks songs

A)Simeles,oxymorons

B)Narration,metaphors

B)

Frank commonly narrates personal stories  and creates metaphors to give deeper emotional meaning to his song

100

What appeal does Frank Ocean mainly use in his music

Emotion:Ocean inspires feeling of nostalgia and sadness throughout by sharing his experiences with love creating a sense of sympathy for the listener

100

What is the Album Blond about

A) Blonde hair

B) Party life

C) Lifes changes

C)

Blond doesn't focus on one major idea instead it focuses on the nostolgia of growing up and different points in people lives

100

True or False:Franks use of narraration and metaphors about life and change are intended for People who are going through the troubles of life.

True

Franks intended audience for his music are people who are reflecting on their past as they go through hard times in life

100

What is Ocean's purpose in creating music

A) Connect to his audience using emotional stories

B)get rich to retire his parents

C) Speak about his experience with love

A)

Frank connects to his audience by evoking sympathy and nostalgia about past relationships 

200

In the lyrics from his song Ivy which method of developments and Rhetorical choices does Frank Ocean present"It's not the same, Ivory is illegal"(Ocean 4)

Metaphor

Symbolism

200

How does oceans rhetorical choices in Ivy appeal to ethos,pathos, or logos

 Ocean inspires a sense of nostalgia within the listeners by saying“We’ll never be those kids again”(Ocean)

200

What is Ivy about

A)Unpreparedness hurting a relationship

B)Getting poison ivy

C)Over grown ivy in his yard

A)

Ivy is about being in a relationship when you knew you weren't ready to be in one and how it hurts both people

200

Ivy presents a messy young love that didn't work out, who is the intended audience 

Ivy's intended audience are young people reflecting on past love

200

What Message does Ivy give the listeners

A) Some people are like poison for you

B) Growth thought mistakes

B)

mistakes are part of being human and all you can do is grow from them

300

In his album Blond the song White Ferrari displays a wide variety of methods of developments and Rhetorical choices, In these lyrics what does ocean use"Im sure we're taller in other dimensions. You say we're small and not worth the mention"(Ocean)

Singular pronouns: Ocean write"I'm sure we are taller" signifying that his belief is one-sided much like his love for the person who believes that they aren't bigger in another plane of reality where they could be together

300

How does oceans rhetorical choices in white Ferrari appeal to ethos,pathos, or logos

Ocean reasons that the relationship ended because of lack of communication.

300

What is White Ferrari about

A) Driving into a life changing car crash

B) Being taller 

C) Growing up as young people

C)

White Ferrari is about how young love drifts apart and ultimately accepting it is over

300

Who is the intended audience for White ferrari with its themes of love,time, and self reflection

The intended audience for White Ferrari are people who were hurt by a relationship that didn't workout

300

What Message does White ferrari give the listeners

A) Small things can make big changes

B)Drive through life slowly

A)

Even if something is temporary it helps shape you into who you are

400

In the song Nights by Frank Ocean, Frank writes"Every night f*cks every day up. Every day patches the night up"(Ocean). What Rhetorical choices did Ocean use in this line

Cause and effect: Ocean gives insight into how the nights influences his day life and how they act as a system where he is fine then bad then becomes fine again because of the passage of time and events that occur during those times.

400

How does oceans rhetorical choices appeal to ethos,pathos, or logos in his song nights using a method of development

Appeals to logic: Ocean reasons how the nights are the cause for his day's to be bad and how the day heals him only for the nights to hurt him again. 

400

What is Nights by Frank Ocean about

A) Night party life

B) Being stressed out

C) Change shaping life

C)

Nights represents the change of life and how time and events shape peoples lives

400

With its themes of change and self identity who is the intended audince for nights

The intended audience for nights are people who don't understand themselves because of the change they face around them and within them

400

What Message does nights give the listeners

A) Party if your stressed

B)Balancing change

B)

Life is full of change but you have to balance it otherwise it will overwhelm you

500

what Rhetorical choices and methods of development does Ocean emplore in these lyrics from his song Pyrite" I know Pyrite from 24 karat, cubic's from genuine diamond, yeah a call from a women who loves you and hello from a friend"(Ocean 2)

Exemplification:He gives the example of Pyrite a stone commonly known as fools gold 

Compare and contrast: He compares the false luster from Pyrite to 

Classification: He creates distinct classifications between what's real and fake 

500

How does oceans rhetorical choices appeal to ethos,pathos, or logos

Ocean inspires a sense of empathy from the listners by sharing his story of the illusion of love

500

What is Pyrite about

A) Finding gold in a cave

B) False love seeming real

C) buying glasses that make the world look red

B)

Pyrite is about the nostalgia of false love and how while in the moment while everything seems perfect in the moment but looking back on the memory it feels empty and gray 

500

Pyrite is about the Nostalgia of and seeing how things weren't as rose tinted as they seemed, from this information who is the intended audience.

The indented audience of Pyrite are people who feel sympathy for Ocean and have also felt like the love they used to adore so much was grey and blue

500

What message does Ocean give to the listeners through pyrite

A) Fake thing can look real

B) Gold is just as good as pyrite

A)

Not everything that looks all bright and perfect are real