You asked, I listen. I'll try to provide optional prompts for your blog posts for the rest of the semester. Please respond to the prompt as a separate post, or it will not count toward your total.
Prompt:
(these questions are not to be specifically answered per se, but are meant to be rhetorical, that is, to get you thinking)
What do you like about your favorite book or movie? What sorts of rhetorical appeals is it making? How does the tone of the language of the book or the color scheme (for instance) of a film affect you? Does the book or film seek to convey a point of view or to comment on a particular subject? What do you think about those subjects because of the rhetorical impetus of the film/book?
A brief review:
A General Summary of Aristotle's Appeals:
The goal of argumentative writing is to persuade your audience that
your ideas are valid, or more valid than someone else's. The Athenian philosopher
Aristotle divided the means of persuasion, appeals, into three categories--Ethos,
Pathos, Logos.
Ethos (Credibility), or ethical appeal, means convincing
by the character of the author. We tend to believe people whom we respect.
One of the central problems of argumentation is to project an impression
to the reader that you are someone worth listening to, in other words making
yourself as author into an authority on the subject of the paper, as well
as someone who is likable and worthy of respect.
Pathos (Emotional) means persuading by appealing to the reader's
emotions. We can look at texts ranging from classic essays to contemporary
advertisements to see how pathos, emotional appeals, are used to persuade.
Language choice affects the audience's emotional response, and emotional
appeal can effectively be used to enhance an argument.
Logos (Logical) means persuading by the use of reasoning.
This will be the most important technique we will study, and Aristotle's
favorite. We'll look at deductive and inductive reasoning, and discuss
what makes an effective, persuasive reason to back up your claims. Giving
reasons is the heart of argumentation, and cannot be emphasized enough.
One of my favorite story is the Death of a Salesman. It is a tragedy play about the common man by Arthur Miller. The story focuses on the character, Willy Loman. He is a 63 years old man who still pursue the American Dream and desire his son to pursue his same dream.The main theme are about the American Dream, reality and dream, and abandon. The tone switches from happy to sad often about it is stream of consciousness. The story relies heavily on pathos as it shows the life of a man who failed to reach his dream and who has greater value to his family died then alive in the end. The play has been adapted several times and the story has won a few awards.
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