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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Army Apparitions By Alan Moore

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Too Tough for Ghost?
One of the most common misunderstandings is that people characterize our military as fearless. Although they face terrible things daily to ensure our freedom, there may be another argument to that assumption. “Army Apparitions” by Alan Moore recounts multiple ghost experiences that will explain to the audience many of the unexplained stories of ghost that have occurred on army post. The author touches on all of the rhetorical appeals throughout the article. While the intention of the article is to inform the audience, Moore has failed to include credibility of his personal resources used in the article. Moore outlines several ghostly accounts of military personnel in a neutral tone, which is not meant to force someone …show more content…

He does not imply his opinion throughout the piece which directly leads the reader to understand his neutral tone towards the subject. When writing this article Moore used his tone along with specific word choice to deliver this piece to the intended audience. Moore states in the end of the article, “Unless one believes in ghost.” This example of word choice is exactly what is needed to write a story about ghost occurrences to appeal to not just the believers. When an author includes a conclusion such as Moore did it forces the reader to actually think about the entire article and apply it to themselves. The reader may be someone who believes in ghost or just reading this to expand their knowledge on military history. Moore recounts each story well so that either audience may understand. Discussion could easily be made over articles like this. Moore keeps a neutral tone throughout the article and then ends with a statement to question each reader personally. This could start discussion within a group of whether or not they themselves would believe these stories and why. Ghost stories are commonly told as a mystery or even called the “unexplained.” Topics such as ghost are a great for discussion and Moore presented this very well by also touching on each of the rhetorical …show more content…

He includes examples of ethos by having personal ghost stories in his article as his supporting material. The people who are involved with the ghost stories in this article are described as “Highly educated.” This article is about military personnel. Not all people who join our military are as highly educated as it may sound. The U.S Army reported in 2012 that the average enlistment age was just under 21. In most cases this is just a few years after high school graduation. Although many military are extremely intelligent and yes provide us with the many freedoms we have today. Some people get out of school and just join the military because they couldn’t find work the like or just simply to get away from home. So classifying all of these people as highly educated to audience may not completely be true without some evidence. He includes the use of pathos to the portion of the audience that may be looking into these ghost stories for a good scare. People who enjoy reading ghost stories look for that emotional feeling that leads to the chill bumps down your spine as you read. These types of emotions were evoked throughout the unique word choice used in each personal encounter. The in depth description of each story allows a reader to feel the emotion of fear that that is presented in each story. Logos is

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