Mike Stoud Rhetorical Devices

In Bruce Cockburn’s Hoop Dancer, a song written in 1979 from the album The Trouble with Normal, he makes the case that the old cultures of Japan are extinct using these vivid rhetorical devices anaphora, juxtaposition, hyperbole, and allusion. In the song Cockburn repeats the phrases “cutting through…” and “through…” in lines 17 through 19 to further gain the reader's attention to the word cutting and how the idea of the culture that is disappearing over time is cutting its way through the guilty sentimental warmth of the audience, and the survival pride of the dancers. The next device, juxtaposition, is used in the quote “now transparent feet touch down on anaconda.” This quote is discussing the dancer concluding the dance and as the music

The commercial I chose is "Restricted Bling". This is produced by T-Mobile and published on February 2nd, 2016. In this commercial three workers interrupts a rappers video session to change the lyrics of his song. This commercial can be seen as phone carriers ruining everything even Drakes song. This commercial can be seen from two points of views.

Brent Staples, in his literary essay “Just Walk On By”, uses a variety of rhetorical strategies. The devices he uses throughout his essay effectively engage the audience in a series of his own personal anecdotes and thoughts. He specifically shifts the reader's perspective towards the unvoiced and the judged. Within the essay, Staples manipulates several rhetorical strategies, such as perspective and metaphor, in order to emphasize the damage stereotypes have caused against the mindsets and perceptions of society as a whole.

Journalists are infamous for their motivation to produce hard hitting editorials, twisting the truth for their own selfish benefit. Steve Chapman strays away from this stereotype by ensuring integrity in every article. Continuously, Chapman strives to present the public with his analytical opinions. Douglas Adams describes the drive of Steve Chapman; “To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought of measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity”. Steven Chapman, who writes weekly op-eds for the Chicago Tribune, delivers insight into national headlines using suggestive rhetoric appeals to address the reader’s fears of uncertainty followed by accredited reasoning, a condescending tone targeted at the written subject, calling the reader for reformation within society, and dashes to separate general statements from definitive fact, shifting from a mission-based point of view to thought-provoking opinionated writing in order to spark motivation within his readers using his opinions so that they can take action to better their communities in hopes of improving future national development.

Rhetorical devices are elements embedded in a piece of work that allow the viewer to fully interpret and engage with the content presented. Rhetorical elements can be used universally through various mediums. In this essay I will be analyzing a photograph, specifically addressing the images logos, pathos, and Telos. The photograph frames your not so typical geriatric couple complete with skateboards and their flying birds. The caption of the photo is “This couple sticking it to the man”. This ironic photo packs a strong central message of living young wild and free. The unknown photographer develops the central message through the use of rhetorical deceives.

The scream rips through the night, but is silenced very quickly. Frantic neighbors get police, when police arrive they notice that the screen door is ripped. They walk in and see that the couple has not only had their throats slashed, but head bashed with an axe. Police know the Axeman has struck again. This podcast explores the Axeman murders using rhetorical devices and narration.

In Chance the Rapper’s song, Same Drugs, he reminisces about one of his past relationships that sadly has come to an end due to them growing apart and no longer sharing the same interests. Chance’s purpose was to express that he was heartbroken by this breakup and wishes that they hadn’t grown apart. He employs a sentimental tone in order to convey to his audience that he truly misses their relationship. Chance the Rapper achieves this sentimental tone through the use of repetition, allusions, and symbolism.

A method that resonates the best for my artifact is Neo-Aristotelian, an “original method of criticism” (Newbold & Scoot, 2017). This method can best help analyze not only speeches, but also advertisements, novels, public service announcements, etc. Deliberative genre, outlined by Aristotle, is demonstrated in this speech as an attempt to “persuade [young adults] to take some action” to become successful in their future (Nordquist, 2017). Thoroughly invested in the future of young adults, success is what Eric Thomas strives for his audiences to reach and works at gaining their initiative to do so.

The dominant rhetorical device in the poem “Did I Miss Anything” by Tom Way is the anaphora of the words “Nothing.”(1) and “Everything.”(4) at the start of alternating stanzas. The anaphora sets the form of the poem as it creates two sets of perspectives that are contrasted. The inactivity of “Nothing.”(1) “When … we sat …in silence, …”(1-3) is strongly linked to lack of “value or meaning”(10) in “Nothing.”(9), and “Nothing.”(23) concludes that the loss of significance it is due to lack of presence. The mundane “Everything.”(4) of “an exam”(4),“the grade”(5), “some reading”(6), and “a quiz”(7) is paralleled with the “heavenly”(17) possibility of “divine wisdom”(19) in “Everything”(15),

For example, Mrs. Hutchinson was telling the crowd of villagers “You didn’t give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn’t fair!”, when Mr. Hutchinson got the slip of paper, however, no one cared what she said. This shows the theme “standing up for what is right may not always be the easiest path”, because Mrs. Hutchinson was trying to tell everyone that it was not fair, that Mr. Hutchinson was pressured, but no one listened to her. Because it is hard to stand up for what is right. Another example, in “The Lottery” is [“It isn’t fair,” she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head”]. This example illustrates that it “may not always be the easiest path” in the theme, because Tessie/Mrs. Hutchinson tries to stand up for what is right and at the end she just got stoned to death. “The Lottery” states [“Some places have already quit lotteries,” Mrs. Adams said “Nothing but trouble in that,” Old Man Warner said stoutly. “Pack of young fools”]. In this example other places have stopped doing the lottery, because they are standing for what is right, however Old Man Warner reacts that they are not making a smart choice of stopping the

Terry Moore presented a Technology, Education, Design (TED) Talk in May of 2011 entitled “How to Tie Your Shoes.” During which, he humorously explained the best way to tie one's shoes to a group of highly intelligent individuals. He displayed the age-old ways of how to tie shoes, and shows why his way is the best. Moore tries to show everyone that the processes people do every day have the possibility to be improved. Moore does a fantastic job delivering information about a seemingly silly topic, tying one’s shoes, through his own personal experiences and the informal words he used during his speech.

The theme is how when you have a tough, important moment in life, you have to make the best of it and move along. An image for these lyrics will help you connect to the theme because you can see what is going on and a picture will help you understand something more. In my next paragraph, I will be talking about how the singers used repetition to emphasize certain points.

In Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”, Swift makes use of a prominent poetic device, paradox. The rhetorical device that Taylor Swift has used again and again in the song is ‘paradox’ and it is considered as her weapon of choice in writing the entire song. For example in the first line “Nice to meet you/ Where you’ve been.” (Swift), it is contradictory. You do not care for where a person has been if you do not met him/her before, unless you knew all along that you will be meeting him or waiting for him even though you did not know who he was. The ‘nice to meet you’ line implies that she has just met him. That is just a first example of a number of paradoxes used in the entire song.

An idea that interested me in the song “Fix you” by Coldplay was how you will always have someone to lean on no matter what. When Chris sings “lights will guide home” he is using personification in this line because saying the lights will guide them is a human thing to do, as people guide each other which I think Chris is trying to demonstrate when he sings the lyrics “lights will guide you home.” It shows life itself because no matter how big the mistakes you make, no matter how bad life may seem, there will always be someone that will have your back. This reminds me of my friends who are always there for me whether its for when I’m feeling down or if I’ve had a bad day. These lyrics also emphasize that everyone goes through rough patchs in their life and they should let people try to help them. When my dog died this year, I didn’t take it well and I was distraught, but it made me going through the loss easier

In the Toastmasters International Speech Championship 2014, Dananjaya Hettiarachchi’s speech called “I see something” is an inspiring speech that contributes of how everyone is special in their own way. Dananjaya creates a message where everyone has potential in them to realize their speciality even if they are at their worst times. He uses many different elements such as one of the rhetorical device which is ethos and pathos. His personal story of himself enhances the topic and naturally becomes effective in his public speaking. Overall, his speech has effectively motivated people to find their own uniqueness.