Rhetorical Appeals
This rhetorical device appeals to emotion.
What is pathos?
No, no, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Source: I Have a Dream
Simile
This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brother-hood.
What is hopeful?
Explain PIE
What is point (name the rhetorical device)?
What is illustrate (provide a quote/hard evidence from the article)?
What is explain (enhance the quote/highlight implications)?
That narrative lacks subtlety, if it’s not outright deceptive. The average age of DACA participants is now 24. Few after entering adulthood sought to address their known illegal status. Surveys suggest that most are not in school; fewer than 5% have graduated from college. Those employed earn a median hourly wage of $15.34, which means they are forced to compete on the lower end of the wage ladder. Only about a tenth of 1% of DACA youth serve in the U.S. military — fewer than 900 total.
What is logos?
We have too many guns in this country, including too many based on combat weapons, and as a result we have too many shootings and deaths.
What is repetition?
"A Front-Page Insult to People With Disabilities.
A New York Post cover story advances the harmful notion that if someone can walk, they must not have a disability."
What is infuriated?
What are the 3 pieces to include in a RATS statement?
What is the authors name (OR article title)?
What is the author's argument?
What rhetorical devices do they use?
“They couldn’t have picked a more Eurocentric date,” said Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, president of the World History Association and a former developer of the exam and course.
What is ethos?
What caused such a massive failure to respond to the needs of 3.5 million U.S. citizens? What is our responsibility now to our fellow Americans on the island?
What is a rhetorical question?
The loud fight over what will happen to America’s “Dreamers” isn’t what it seems. For both sides, it’s a fig leaf* used to hide their true intentions. [*A fig leaf is: something that conceals or camouflages usually inadequately or dishonestly; something that hides something else, especially something that is dishonest or embarrassing]
What is critical?
The difference between NATS (nuanced argument thesis statement) and RATS (rhetorical analysis thesis statement)
What is the author's argument (NATS)?
What devices does the author use to support their evidence (RATS)?
This paragraph has two.
It trapped people like me on land, consigning us to prison-like camps...On Manus Island, every day was filled with trauma. We were treated like animals by the security guards and some of us were beaten by local people, but no action was taken. We did not receive proper medical attention. We had to beg for the privilege of a phone call.
What is ethos? What is pathos?
There are two!
It is dusk in Mariana, a barrio in the coastal resort town of Humacao, which sits at the epicenter of Hurricane Maria’s landfall. The streets are dark but not silent. Mariana still has no power or running water, but there are voices and laughter as people cook dinner together over makeshift outdoor stoves. Mariana’s residents, like many other Puerto Ricans, are making the best of a desperate situation.
What is an anecdote? What is imagery?
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat...You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
What is determined?
Write a Rhetorical Analysis Thesis Statement about "‘It’s Horrendous’: The Heartache of a Migrant Boy Taken From His Father" using 2 Rhetorical devices.
What is:
In "It's Horrendous," Miriam Jordan argues to end the zero tolerance policy through pathos and logos (or ethos)?
*Need to include the author's argument and at least 2 rhetorical devices for full credit*
Immigrants have founded some of our most successful and highest-employing companies...But immigrants exert influence far beyond the ranks of Fortune 500 executives and Nobel laureates. They include the people who plant and harvest crops, staff assembly lines, build and maintain houses, and work in or own restaurants. In short, they are crucial cogs in our economic engine.
What is logos?
No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation. To guide our own craft, we must be captain, pilot, engineer; with chart and compass to stand at the wheel; to match the wind and waves and know when to take in the sail, and to read the signs in the firmament over all. It matters not whether the solitary voyager is man or woman.
What is a metaphor?
Quotes about Harriet Tubman -
“She’s best known for her sojourns north,” said Alison Saar, the sculptor of the work, titled “Swing Low,” “but what is most impressive to me are her trips south, where she risked her own freedom.”
“As impressive as her courage and commitment was, what is amazing to me is her compassion,” said Ms. Saar, 52. “Harriet Tubman is calling on all of us to look at the compassion within each of us.”
Source: Why is Harriet Tubman Facing South?
What is admiration?
**2 minutes for this question**
Complete the PIE:
In "It's Horrendous," Jordan uses pathos to convey the horror of the zero-tolerance policy. She provides us with an anecdote: "When he landed in Michigan in late May, all the weary little boy carried was a trash bag stuffed with dirty clothes from his dayslong trek across Mexico, and two small pieces of paper — one a stick-figure drawing of his family from Honduras, the other a sketch of his father, who had been arrested and led away after they arrived at the United States border in El Paso." ...
The PIE is missing the explanation.
Sample answer:
When she writes about this 5-year old, Joran creates sympathy in her audience, who knows how important family is and how hard it is to lose it. Realizing it is the law that creates this immoral separation, the adience develops rage towards the zero-tolerance policy.