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    Fantasy Rhetoric: Summary and Analysis of Katherine Fowkes’s Fantasy Films A Rhetoric Analysis consists of a multitude of attributes some larger than others and some not specifically require. Among those are certain attributes that are what provides the foundation of any Rhetoric work, Logos, Pathos, and Ethos or persuasive appeal. My job is to show you the other attributes consisting of the context of the argument, the authors’ attitude, and the tone of the overall work. So first I will have

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    The arguments presented in this book are clear and organized in a logical manner. Among the different writers whose works are featured in the book, they offer different examples to explore the genre of horror films from different perspectives. The writers also attempt to explain the how modern day horror film are related to certain themes of blood and gore, and the relationships between pornography and horror film among other things. I’m using this source as it relates to my research question regarding

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    Lear Ado (A Comparative Analysis of Dramatic Genres Between Shakespeare’s, King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing) Within the world of drama and performance, there are two central ends of the genre spectrum. These are essentially the “light and dark” of the stage. These opposite ends of the spectrum are comedy and tragedy, respectively. While some people may prefer one genre over the other, these both find ways to tell great stories with greatly different methods. One eternally famous playwright

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    How Effectively/Appropriately Am I Performing this/these Genre-Attempt(s): Have taken detailed peer review notes; make your peer-reviewer(s) go into troubleshooting detail on workshop days: Insist that they look for problems or flaws. Deal with more than sentence-level issues (grammar, punctuation, etc.), but do mention those if that’s an issue. Then, go beyond what the peer-reviewer(s) might have said. Write also a self-assessment. While I usually discourage writing a 5-paragraph essay, that

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    Bo Seamans Daniel Morris Military Literature 8 July 2015 Why do some writers choose poetry instead of fiction or autobiography when writing about their experiences? What can poetry offer an artist that other genres might not? Scientific experimentation involves realistic reflections and measurable results, and results are usually proven when recurrences of the experiment have lead to the same conclusions. One could debate that the significance of a poem and the genuineness of that meaning are proven

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    Best known for his work on genre analysis, John Swales, a linguist, has been greatly influential on academic English. His work on discourse communities has helped to greatly define and analyze the way in which unique communities may operate and exchange information. Discourse Communities are, as defined by Swales, groups that have common goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. What is particularly influential about his writing on his topic is in his description of six shared

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    people around the world. There are many genres, graphic novels can fall into, but a large majority of them will always be fiction because then the authors can expand more into their stories than they can with non-fiction. “Today, images still have the power to elicit a variety of responses.” (Horowitz, pg. 8). This was something I noticed with graphic novels when they mention the usage of genders in the stories. Fictional graphic novels, no matter what their genre is, have unique ways of interpreting

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    “Genres are not systems, they are a process of systematisation.”(Neale 1980). Genres are both a method of nomenclature, dividing literature according to its style, subject and context. Genre constantly re-imagines, challenges, and expands its boundaries to reflect zeitgeist of the society at the time and to become a barometer of the social and cultural concerns of the audience. Likewise, crime fiction as a genre has evolved from traditional conventions. Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and Cornell

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    put my essay of rhetorical analysis at the first page in the assignment section. One of the reasons is it is the first major work that may clearly show my progress that I have made in this class. The analysis was focusing on Emily St. John Mandel’s science-fiction novel, Station Eleven, which tells an alluring story about the post-apocalypse world. I found this analysis was difficult because I have never written an essay which analyses how authors applies different genres and conventions in their writings

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    Secondly genre is the French word meaning type. Genres may be approached by way of various critical avenues. In the Aristotelian strain we recognize genres as kinds within a system of classification. These categories beg further definition, so there is a history of, on the one hand, the refinement of divisions and subdivisions, and on the other a Platonic search for the 'essential' qualities of tragedy, comedy, epic poetry, and so forth. By the recognition of genres we begin

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