Elements of Style
Language:
What type of language was used in this essay?
a. Only formal diction was used, to emphasize the seriousness of the topic
b. Only informal diction was used
c. Both styles of diction were used
What is Logos?
Reasoning with facts
What type of essay did George Orwell write with You and the Atomic Bomb?
a. Narrative
b. Persuasive
c. Cause & Effect
Both B and C are correct! (Persuasive and Cause & Effect)
Voice:
In what perspective did Orwell express his sentiments in the essay?
A 1st person perspective
What is the significance of Pathos in Orwell's essay?
Many of the author's emotionally driven responses to the uprising of the Atomic Bomb, allowed the readers to connect to his beliefs that advanced military technology was oppressing the common people.
What was the intended purpose of this essay?
For the public to become weary of the implications such a weapon could have in our modern society.
Throughout this essay, in what tone did Orwell express his thoughts?
In a serious tone, with the use of formal diction.
“Threat of it, against people who are unable to retaliate? In that case we are back where we were before, the only difference being that power is concentrated in still fewer hands and that the outlook for subject peoples and oppressed classes is still more hopeless.”
Pathos
What was the targeted audience of this essay? (in terms of age group)
Early adulthood and above.
This quote is an example of what rhetorical device?
“In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again” (Paragraph 4)
a. Hyperbole
b. Allusion
c. Juxtaposition
Allusion
When Orwell says, “Even the most backward nation could always get hold of rifles from one source or another, so that Boers, Bulgars, Abyssinians, Moroccans – even Tibetans – could put up a fight for their independence, sometimes with success" it is an example of...
Logos
DAILY DOUBLE!!
What is George Orwell's real name?
Eric Arthur Blair
List at least two of the persuasive strategies that George Orwell utilized in this essay.
1. Rhetorical Questions
2. Emotional Words
3. Contingency
“it appears from President Truman’s remarks, and various comments that have been made on them, that the bomb is fantastically expensive and that its manufacture demands an enormous industrial effort, such as only three or four countries in the world are capable of making”
What was the takeaway of Orwell's statement at the end of his essay? "Peace that is no peace"
His paradoxical statement used contingency. It was made to voice his concerns, as he was trying to appeal to the sense of dread for another war.