Rhetorical Choices
"The feeling I get when I see a South Asian or Muslim person succeeding, like I've swallowed a handful of fireflies, lighting up my stomach" (Asghar 87).
What form of rhetorical choice is this?
Simile
Asghar writes about times she was asked where she was from. What form of rhetorical appeal could that be?
Ethos
Asghar's ethnic background is
Pakistani
How does Asghar use anecdotes to further convey her purpose?
She uses anecdotes of her childhood and her defining experiences as a Pakistani to display her constant loneliness.
How does Asghar's intended audience affect the way she uses rhetorical appeals?
Since her intended audience is immigrants and POC, she discusses her experiences as those identifications. This helps boost her credibility for ethos and tugs on the audience's heartstrings.
Asghar's family speaks English and
Urdu
“What does home look like when we've been displaced? The enormity of this question makes me feel like I'll never have a place in this world, makes me feel such a sharp loneliness” (Asghar 91).
How does this hypophora help develop the author's purpose?
By asking this question and directly answering it right after, the author further conveys her feelings of alienation as a person of color.
"Working in entertainment, it's not uncommon to walk into a room, pitch a South Asian or Muslim-specific idea, and have an exec say that they don't think their audiences will connect to it"(Asghar 83).
How does this line tap into Pathos?
By discussing her experience of being unfairly treated, it allows the audience to feel sympathy for her, as she has gone through a hardship that was wrongly placed on her by society.
Asghar grew up in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Find an in-text example of a rhetorical choice and explain its purpose.
Answers may vary. People may discuss a simile, hypophora, etc, and relate it back to Asghar's loneliness (author's purpose), as well as rhetoric appeals.
Find an in-text example of Logos and explain.
Answers may vary. People may explain this by discussing her experiences as a minority, logically appealing to those who share common experiences as she does.
After fleeing the violence of the Partition, Asghar's mother moved to
Lahore, Pakistan