Rhetorical Analysis Of How You Became You By Bill Bryson

The syntax and sentence structure varied, making it more realistic and life-like. All the sentences were on the long side of the

The usage of Rhetorical Devices is in everything one listens to, watches, and especially reads included by the author’s in order to capture the audience's attention. Uptown Sinclair is a well known literary writer that blossomed during the nineteenth century for the purpose to explain to society what wrong situation was occurring with the meat industry. Sinclair uses a wide variety of rhetoric in order to build a support system for his theme. If used well these devices strengthen and add more structure to any prose. A few of the many well known rhetorical devices that are used by Uptown Sinclair are; metaphors, similes, Rhetorical questions, Anadiplosis, personification, asyndeton, repetition, periodic sentences, and symbolism.

A good example of this is King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, which is used to move the audience. King uses charged language throughout the speech, like in paragraph 15 when he says “Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.” (King Pg 263) King also uses Pathos in “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” Throughout paragraph 14, King uses the same sentence structure repeatedly to form a rhythm and add emphasis to his words (King Pg 275). King uses this literary device to add rhythm, structure, and emphasis to his

Rhetorical strategies are a great way for an author to get their tone and what they want to share to their reader. In Barbara Jordan’s Becoming Educated she uses rhetorical strategies to do just that. Jordan uses repetition and diction to increase her effectiveness of her message. She does so that the reader can also relate to what she is going through. By using repletion and diction she weaves these rhetorical devices throughout her experience to increase its effectiveness to convey her voice and her personal sense of growth.

In Literature, rhetorical devices are often used to place emphasis on certain ideas or descriptions, to make an idea clearer, or to provide insight and to smoothly relate topics. Throughout his collection of essays, Scott Russell Sanders utilizes rhetorical devices in order to make his statements and ideas more vivid and clear for the reader. The rhetorical devices offer a more descriptive and insightful look into Sanders’ thoughts on his childhood, personality, and view of the world around him. Throughout the book, Sanders’ uses rhetorical devices ranging from allusions of events and people from the past to employing a varied tone in order give the audience a clear view into his thoughts

Nonconformity allows people to go against a prevailing rule so that they may do as they please.

This postcard builds suspense in the reader’s mind. Alex saying that this adventure could kill him makes the reader interested in finding out more. “If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man.” (Krakauer 3).

By choosing strong and well-thought out words, it allows the readers to better pay attention to detail and recollect more material. Influential diction causes the readers to become reeled in and intrigued in the novel. The narrator writes, “You’d fine the high school phenoms running circles around the overweight has-beens, guys who’d effortlessly played above-the-rim years ago now trying to catch their breath and salvage what was left of their once-stylish games” (Moore 44). Using words like ‘phenoms’ and ‘has-beens’ causes the author and the reader to relate. The narrator creates a connection between himself and his audience by using words his readers can understand and empathize with. Wes says, “You’d find the drug dealers there...smelling like a fresh haircut and with gear on that was too fine for sweating in” (Moore 44). Moore uses imagery and tugs at our senses to allow his audience to better picture the situation he is explaining and describing. Imagery, along with strong diction, generates a more engaging novel. The storyteller’s sentence structure varies from short to long. This allows the reader to stay interested and keeps the author’s sentences flowing easily. Wes Moore, the narrator, is guilty of inspiring and influential diction and

One example of this contrast includes: “Look, we don’t get to be cool very often. We take it where we can get it.” (Giffels 12). This line shows the way he writes simply using a generic term such as ‘cool’ and then one example where he uses switches to a more advanced level can be seen on page fourteen. Giffels’ describes a day at his office with descriptive detail: “I was working in my office on a gray Sunday afternoon near the end of the spring semester, chilly gusts sweeping at the windowpanes.” Another reason his writing style is unique is because Giffels tries to target as large an audience as possible throughout his book. The reason for this broad style is so that it will appeal to readers by their preferences. Therefore, his unique style allows the readers to be more intrigued in the book because of this one may come to the conclusion that Giffels’ choice to use this style to appeal to as wide a margin as he possibly could, was a smart

One of the principle tenets of atomism is that the atoms people are comprised of provide the basis for physical sensations we might experience, such as heat, touch, smell, et cetera. Lucretius provides the corollary to this view by noting that without some mechanism for processing these input data, we would not smell things, or might burn our hands in a fire. This cognition of external stimuli is one of the key functions of the soul atoms which permeate our bodies. The soul, Lucretius says, is comprised of four distinct types of atoms: breath, heat, air, and a fourth, unnamed variety, which is more mobile than the other three (3.231). The presence of these soul atoms can be proved by observing a person’s reactions to various ailments; sickness afflicts both the body and the mind, for example, demonstrating that they are intrinsically linked. In addition, because sensation may occur at any point in or on the body, the soul must be distributed completely and evenly throughout oneself.

Faulkner uses syntactical strategies throughout his speech to assist him in communicating his message to his audience. In the third paragraph he emphasizes a syntax device known as anaphora, when stating, “He must learn them again… He much teach himself… He writes not of love…He writes not of the heart…”.The anaphora helps Faulkner be effective in his argument by the repetition of words to help him get his view of things across to the audience. To also succor his effectiveness he uses polysyndeton, which is used to draw the audience’s attention therefore adding the effect of persistence and intensity to help keep his audiences attention, making his speech effective. An example of polysyndeton is when he declares “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice” This quote helps signify that authors need to write from their soul and

First, Ericsson uses inventive syntax to help establish her purpose and to make it stand out. She first uses anaphora, the repetition of words at the beginning of sentences, to make her arguments more notable and impactful. As an example,

In addition to this, sentence structure plays along in exemplifying the effort to push readers to understand others’ pasts as the reasons why they are who they are. Again, the narrator is finally understanding Bartleby’s nature and becomes an example to readers. As he does so, he is emotional, which is why he uses melancholy diction, and this also affects the sentence structure of the passage. The sentences are easy to map, using a combination of

Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! If you are like me, you simply cannot read that sentence without hearing a robot voice in your head. All of us hear a voice in our heads when we are reading the written word and this is great news for the writer. The writer can help to influence the the voice you hear when you are reading their writing and good writers will use this to their advantage. In the technical writing that I do, I can choose to use big technical words so that the voice my reader hears will sound scholarly or I can lessen the formality and use similes to convey the same ideas that those big technical words would. I as the writer have control over the words I use and how I use them this choice contributes to the voice that the reader hears.

Throughout the essay the writer employs a variety of pronouns in a genuine attempt to persuade the audience and draw them in. As an example, he successfully includes