Rhetorical Analysis

Chapter 6, is about one of the most important writing tools that will help you with supporting your arguments. Rhetorical analysis can be applied to almost any text or image. This chapter helps you to understand the purpose that an author has when they are writing their text, and what kind of effect that they were hoping to give their intentional audience. Learning how to identify pathos,ethos, and logos in other texts and arguments.

Chapter 6, took a deep look at the use and the analysis of rhetoric in many situations. The intended audience seems to be students,and young adults, and the author tries to urge us to look beyond the words on the page and focus on the context,purpose, audience, strength of the argument and more. Throughout the chapter the author use multiple examples of rhetoric in action. In examples he gave, he always viewed multiple sides of an issue and practiced thorough analysis.

Audience appeals, which type of arguments do you think is most persuasive . There are three types of arguments: pathos, ethos, and logos. Pathos appeals are based on emotions. Things such as anger, sympathy, fear, envy, joy, love, etc. Pathos can very persuasive. Ethos appeals are based on character and morals. As a writer you want to be perceived as honest, trustworthy, and wise. Logos appeals are based on facts and logic. Sources of information should be credible and relevant.

An example of rhetorical analysis is, the poster of deforemed young woman. Speaking of pathos, the police department published a poster of formerly beautiful young lady after the traumatizing car accident. The drunk driver hit her so hard to start the fire inside her car. Her face burned severely to be hospitalized. Despite doctors' best effort, they were not able to shape her face the way it used to be. Sadly, she has been traumatized for over four years. Seeing this picture made feel extremely sorry for her. To convince general drivers about the dangers of drunk-driving, the police department posted this picture. By looking at this disturbing picture, it makes the readers feel imaginally painful. The slogan "not everyone who gets hit by a drunk driver dies" made me to think twice before drinking drunk, not that I would drink and drive. Also, it forced me to imagine what if I was the victim. I wouldn't want to end up this way. Therefore, the police department applied pathos to convince what it wanted.