Transcript Rhetorical Analysis Review

» Who wrote the piece?
˃ Make sure you get the person’s gender right.
» What is the piece called?
˃ Get it right!
» Make one- in your head, on paper, wherever. As
you address the writer’s argument also consider
his/her use of ethos, pathos and logos.
» Note whether one stands out more than others.
» Note whether the author intentionally negates
including ethos, pathos or logos
» Think about how the rhetorical triangle lends
itself to rhetorical devices
» Before addressing the rhetorical triangle and
rhetorical devices in your writing, identify the
author’s argument.
» State ALL aspects of the argument…don’t
assume your reader will make connections. You
don’t have to defend your claims, you’ll do that
later. Just make it clear you understand the
author’s argument.
» Identify key rhetorical devices that support your
claim’s about the author’s argument.
» Identify key rhetorical devices that support the
author’s use of ethos, pathos and logos.
» Provide concrete examples pulled from the text.
» Provide concrete examples from the text.
» Did I mention to provide concrete examples
from the text?
» Now you show your true thinking….
» How does the author’s use of the rhetorical
devices strengthen his/her argument?
» How does the author’s use of ethos, pathos and
logos strengthen his/her argument?
» John Barry’s- The Great Influenza
» 1. What are Barry’s overall arguments?
» 2. What concepts occur in the passage?
» 3. Examine the syntax of the first paragraph and
notice the patterns of repetition. What do they
do to build on Barry’s argument?
» 4. What is the effect of the anaphora in the first
four sentences?
» 5. What rhetorical device is employed in the
second paragraph?
» 6. Why create the list of what a scientist is
suppose to be?
» 7. What purpose does the anaphora and
antithesis serve in the second and third
sentences?
» 8. What is the effect of the dashes in line 10?
» 9. What is Barry suggesting through his use of
the term “a scientist” in the third paragraph as
opposed to the phrase “to be a scientist” in the
second paragraph?
» 10. What figure of speech does Barry use in the
first sentence of the third paragraph?
» 11. Why refer to Einstein in the second
sentence in the third paragraph?
» 12. What purpose does the infinitive phrase at
the beginning of the last sentence of paragraph
three serve?
» 13. Why doe Barry qualify ‘courage with the
adjective “physical” in the last sentence of the
third paragraph?
» 14. Identify and explain the significance of the
extended metaphor in paragraph 4.
» 15. Find examples of repetition and antithesis.
Why would Barry use these R.D’s?
» 16. What other piece of literature does Barry
refer to when he states, “There a single step
can take them through the looking glass into a
world that seems entirely different…”?
» 17. What point is Barry trying to make about
scientific inquiry in this paragraph?
» 18. Why would Barry places the ellipsis before
the word everything in the first sentence?
» 19. There are a series of questions in paragraph
5. Why are these questions not rhetorical?
» 20. What literary device is employed in the
sentences which describe the probing of rock.
» 21. Through what image does the writer link
the 5th and 6th paragraphs?
» 22. Explain the meaning of the metaphor “a
flood of colleagues.”
» 23. Why would Barry repeat the concepts
“order,” “ pioneer,” and “tool” in this
paragraph?
» 24. Which words signal a shift in tone in the
final paragraph?
» 25. What are some of the connotative
associations of the word “illuminate” in line 59?
» 26. Identify the syntactical variations in this last
paragraph and explain why Barry uses this
technique.
» 27. Who is Barry’s intended audience?