Rhetorical Devices In The Quiet Alarm

The author’s narrative, ripe with horrifying descriptions, is nonetheless told with compassion appealing to the emotions of the audience

Wiesel made the appeal pathos noticeable to the audience in Night; using this strategy in his writing gives the audience the emotional feeling felt by Eliezer as the story progressed. The first example of pathos was the appearance of German troops on the streets of Sighet, “The race toward death had begun.” (Wiesel 2006, 10). This is how Elie Wiesel used the appeal of pathos to help the audience understand how frightened and shocked everyone in the town was after the German officers appeared on their streets. Elie continued to use this appeal throughout the book;

The author also effectively supports his thesis through pathos. To evoke strong emotion in his readers, Jones appeals to the audience’s feeling of vulnerability in their youth. Recognizing that during adolescence most people feel powerless, he tells engaging stories of his own and his son’s rise to power through comic books to give the audience something to connect to. As these stories are told, readers reminisce about those days, and feel joy in knowing that there was a happy ending. The feelings created make the audience look positively at the essay and relate to it.

To begin, he uses emotional appeal to create powerful imagery to persuade the reader that celebrating freedom is wrong when slavery still exists. He announces, “fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are today rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them” (para. 4). By creating a picture in the audience’s mind of other people’s cries of freedom deriding slaves, they begin to feel ashamed for being so cheerful while African Americans have no liberty.

Rachel Carson is a noted biologist who studies biology, a branch of science addressing living organisms, yet she has written a book called Silent Spring to speak about the harmful effects of pesticides on nature. Carson doesn’t write about birds’ genetic and physical makeup, the role of them in the animal food chain, or even how to identify their unbelievable bird songs, yet strongly attests the fight for a well developed environment containing birds, humans, and insects is just and necessary. To Carson, the war for a natural environment is instantly essential for holding on to her true love for the study of biology. Thus Carson claims that whether it be a direct hit towards birds or an indirect hit towards humans and wildlife, farmers need to understand the effects and abandon the usage of pesticides in order to save the environment by appealing to officials, farmers, and Americans in her 1962 book, Silent Spring. She positions her defense by using rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questioning to establish logos, juxtaposing ideas, and using connotative and denotative diction.

Through his use of pathos, Malcolm X triggers real emotions by targeting the people whose lives are spent in jail. He establishes his pathos by using other rhetorical devices like, opposition, imagery,

In President Obama’s “Osama bin Laden Killed” speech he dives right into using pathos. He reminds the country of what happened 10 years ago on 9/11 and who was responsible. This is such an effective strategy because 9/11 wasn’t an event that only affected a few people, it was a day that shocked and enraged a nation. Everyone in the nation was affected. By bringing it back up, Obama rekindles that fire of anger, sadness, and desire for justice in the audiences hearts. Due to this, everyone is drawn in to everything he says after.

Elie Wiesel uses the rhetorical appeal of pathos in his speech that which he states “Indifference is not the beginning, it is an end. And therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor--never the victim, whose pain magnifies when he or she feels forgotten.” By saying this Elie impacts the reader and his audience on an emotional level. It makes them think about how people in that situation may have felt, also how you might of felt if you were presented with that same situation.

Staples includes pathos in order to elicit an emotional view about the issue he discusses, rather than just statistical. The use of this appeal also makes his piece more personal, and therefore easier to comprehend. Staples wants it to be known that many factors about stereotypes affect him mentally as well as emotionally. In paragraph nine, Staples brings up the physical loss that this issue can cause by adding that “As a boy, I saw countless tough guys locked away; I have since buried several, too. They were babies, really—a teenage cousin, a brother of twenty-two, a childhood friend in his midtwenties – all gone down in episodes of bravado played out in the streets” (543).

Rhetorical Analysis of The Secret In a mixture of sentimental and significant quotes and evidence, Rhonda Byrne, the author of The Secret has convinced many that the law of attraction really does improve lives, and gets people what they want. In short, this movie uses an abundant amount of imagery, well-know people, and quotes to persuade and explain how the law of attraction works. Whereas the movie, The Secret provides a convincible chain of reasonable evidence on why the law of attraction could improve thousands of lives, regardless, this movie is honestly a fallacious and illegitimate wave of arguments.

FCKH8.com’s video made an abundance of creative decisions that made each of its viewers have an intense reaction, dependent on the viewer this reaction was either positive or negative. These decisions often created an intense emotion within its audience which made the video overflow with pathos. One example of this

People say naturally that the only way there's a sound is if you can hear it. Now, based on the two passages, 'Hearing Sound does not Require Ears' by Tabitha Callaway, and 'Sound is All around Us' by Jason Torres. Which state that sound there without us being able to hear it. As well as you not even needing ears to hear in the first place.

This incorporates Pathos as the reader feels empathy for the young men who suffered at the hand of military commanders. Another underling Pathos involvement to the audience is their own self examination of their conscience as they read about the tribulation of others and possibly put themselves in the situations. The initial sentence of the first paragraph aims to involve the audience creating personal attachment to the text, impelling them to continue reading. ‘We are all governed by our conscience, a persons conscience is what shapes our decisions about what is right and what is

Nevertheless, Lakoff’s approach echoes Hunter’s theory of conflicting moral authorities and presents an elaborated cognitive model. In his model, Lakoff explains that the conservatives and liberals are under the influence of two different interpretations. In the contemporary American political landscape, the major assumption is that language reflects specific frames, conceptual metaphors, narratives and emotions that are grounded in our conceptual system.

The audience is made to feel sympathy in Irwin Winkler’s Life as a house and Ray Bradbury’s The Scythe. They make you feel sympathy for the lack of control the main characters have in the stories. The authors make you feel sympathy by using foreshadowing, symbolism, humour and irony. In both stories the main characters lack control over death.