Category: Rhetorical Strategies

When attempting to persuade an audience on your outlook on a topic, how acceptable is the use of illogical reasoning in order to give more credibility to an argument? How does the art of discourse affect audiences with the intent of learning more about a topic? The issue of gender equity is one which has…

Fia Cummings (2000) Higher fuel tax slows us down; NEWS EXTRA published by Sun Herald; a Sunday counterpart of the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), illustrates the conflict between truck drivers and the dishonesty of the Australian government on the issue of increased excise rates for fuel. Cumming achieves this via applications of rhetorical appeals, predominately…

In the 19th century, women in the United States had few legal rights and most of all did not have the right to vote. This speech on the women’s right to vote was given by Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. Anthony was then…

Best In Class can be seen as full of rhetorical strategies and rhetorical appeals. Margaret Talbot uses exemplification as a rhetorical strategy in order to capture the audience’s attention. Throughout the essay, she introduces many rhetorical situations, many being about becoming valedictorian. Talbot writes about issues of naming students valedictorian. She states that there are…

Introduction Rhetorical strategies are words or phrases that are used to inform, educate, convey meaning, provoke a response from a listener or reader and persuade during communication. Although the strategies are ordinarily used in literature, we often use these types of words in our everyday conversations without notice. For example, the metaphor, it’s raining cats…

The financial crisis of 2008 bred a new technology. Blockchain technology was born from a desperate attempt to try and alleviate trust from big banks and government after they failed to protect peoples money when the market crashed. Hundreds of millions of dollars lost, families broken, and lives destroyed. When blockchain was invented in 2009…

Throughout The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, we see how the author uses claims and evidence as well as rhetorical strategies to make different appeals to the audience. This educational text serves the purpose of providing information to white individuals who arent familiar with the criminal justice system, which works to force blacks into…

When World War II began, Britain released several propaganda posters. Through diction, symbolism, and imagery, Britain attempted to persuade its citizens to join in the war effort. Throughout several of the posters, targeted diction is used to convince the audience that it is essential for them to go to war. The emphasis on the word…