Waleed Aly uses several features of language to convince the viewers to his perception through appealing to emotions and logic. He includes inclusive and emotive language to ensure that the issue plays on the reader’s feelings, addresses everyone and makes it appear more significant than it actually is. For example, “I’m sickened by the violence” or “I’m crushed for the families that have been left behind.” He incorporates a hyperbole which exaggerates and overemphasizes the crux of the statement to produce a grander, more noticeable effect. Through the phrase “We’re all feeling a million raging emotions right now” Aly creates a larger-than-life effect and overly tensions his point. Another technique is a call to action, “We all need to come
One of his strongest qualities is adding a message that connects with many types of readers but at the same time focuses on one idea. These messages may not...
George Bush intentionally generates this emotion at the end to leave viewers feeling slightly better on the situation at hand. In his conclusion, the then president merges viewers in saying, “This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.” His conclusions strike different chords in raising hope amongst viewers. He ultimately depicts a unified country and reminds viewers that something similar to this tragedy has happened before, proving that our country has overcome similar challenges. In addition, his reminds viewers of “all that is good and just in our world” evoking more hopeful thinking from Americans. At the end of his address, Bush uses many positive images that cancel out the tragic ones from his introduction and thusly ends his address portray great amounts of hope, comforting
The pursuit of truth has driven him to explore the best ways and practices that can improve the human life and enhance understanding to identify the underlying cause of world ills. He demonstrates the heart and not the brain may be the man’s primary source of intelligence. He continued to argue that human consciousness and emotions may affect the world of reality. The reaction of his heart to a bowl of yogurt may appear humorous, but has great impression in our lives and that money is not a pathway to happiness but in some culture's gross materialism is a symbol of insanity. The film discovers that human life is better when expression of positive emotions such as love, care, compassion, and gratitude than other negative emotions of stress, anxiety and depression. Furthermore, it proves that consensus decision-making is a norm among all species.
President Bush’s speech was directed towards an audience of northern Arizonan republican supporters. Bush continuously uses the rhetorical appeal of pathos, the appeal to the audience’s emotions, to gain support from the crowd and connect them to the issues he addresses on an emotional level. The best example of such an issue is the promise of creating a new forest policy. By raises an issue that the audience was emotionally concerned with, Bush is able to persuade the audience to his purpose as well as relate them to it on an emotional level. It was likely that there were people in the audience who were directly affected by the recent forest fires in Arizona who felt very passionately about the topic of a new national forest policy. The appeal of emotion became a very effective tool in motioning the audience in the direction of his purpose, mainly the gain of support for the republican candidates in the next Arizona election.
This article does not contain a comical sense to it but has a dark, serious tone that is used to show the disturbing realities of this world that these people live in. The article using multiple rhetorical questions that are meant for the reader to think about and place themselves in the described world. This allows them to place themselves in this world and visualize the harsh reality and fear that this world truly holds. The audience is again those people who are not part of this world but are supposed to be in the position of “on the outside looking in” as this description tries to set them in this world within their imagination. This news article breaks its genre conventions as it is not the usual detailed-packed account of a situation you see on the news that simply describes the news it is talking about. Instead, this uses questions to stimulate the reader to envision their own idea of what is happening, while using some supporting details to sway the reader the way I want them to think. Differently, this does keep the convention of having a serious, and dark tone that most of the new news stories and articles
Obama is able to gain his listeners’ ears because of his clear and effective writing. In Obama’s writing various elements of rhetorical framework create a strong and persuasive argument that Obama is able to present in grabbing his audience’s attention and consideration. Seen through his writing, Obama’s use of rhetorical appeals, devices, and context create an in-depth look into the problem of the racial divide which still exist today. In writing an effective argument, Obama employ’s through rhetoric’s personal experience, historical events, religion, and the current state of things, which he asks his audience think more about. By noting that the problems of America as a whole is a problem that every citizen shares and not a problem that exist individually for different races. Obama is able to have his audience focus on the real issues Americans face moving forward. Ultimately, as it is seen prior before the speech was published and given, Obama’s intent on the direction and how his speech would be formed, along with writing techniques that were used to craft the speech, all reveal his personal knowledge of rhetoric’s and ability to write a persuasive argument. Through his speech Obama is easily able to dismisses his critics and do what he intended to do, being that he wants his audience to focus their attention on to the more serious problems that remain unsolved for American
Bush demonstrates that with the use of metaphors, personification, and also repetition. Using metaphor, he compares America to steel, saying that America is like steel, but not pliable. Portraying that whatever dangerous act comes to America, America will stay strong and not move. Personification is to explain the reasoning behind the terrorists’ operations and the motives behind this move. Bush gives feeling and visualization traits to the nation, consequently putting it in the nation’s point of view, highlighting what the nation felt and saw. Repetition is to bring America together and strengthen everyone. It is to show that this heartbreaking event did not just affect the victims, but it affects the entire country. The way Bush uses repetition to get the people of America together makes America stronger because the more a country is together, the more power and strength it will possess. As a final point, President Bush’s usage of these three rhetorical devices grabs the attention of the people and helps Bush express the type of tone he wants to get
Edwards is able to deliver a persuasive speech by invoking fear to his audience through the provision of concrete imagery using various sentence structure, comparisons, and tone; by relevant evidence; and by structured argument. His effective use of these techniques creates a compelling argument to the congregation, and bullies them into believing in a supreme being.
Many people do not recognize the strategies writers and speakers use to influence their audiences’ opinions. They believe that their opinions were constructed based solely on facts. Although establishing one’s own opinions based on facts is ideal, this is usually not the case. By means of the Aunt’s lessons in The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood argues that individuals use verbal techniques, such as word choice, tone, and repetition, to suppress others’ conflicting viewpoints and to promote their own. This is significant because it reveals how people can be manipulated into believing false or misleading information.
However, Bridges is able to appeal to the audience’s emotions by using anecdotes such as, “imagine” (Bridges), to make the audience feel like they could understand. On the other hand, Manne has more of a connection to the reader’s emotions than appealing to them. She uses a empathetic tone, and it makes her feel like she understands her readers. She also goes in details explaining what it is like to be in a triggered reaction, which provokes the audience to feel for those that goes through these emotions. Overall, making her more successful in use emotions to persuade her
Ace Ali is an intelligent 18 year old who lives in Baltimore Maryland. Ace decides to drop out of high school and work at a warehouse because of his belief that the education system is flawed. After the death of his brother Ace’s mother Maria Ali became overbearing, so he decides to live on his own. At night Ace is a vigilante with plans to seek justice for his brother. Ace has a father named David who is active in his life but throughout the episode he will come off as a friend because he looks young and acts immature. Eventually Ace finds a lead on who was involved in the death of his brother and realizes that his brother was a drug dealer working for his mother Maria who is an assistant of her brother Diego Hernandez who is drug lord
When people read, they are taken to another person’s world and forced to see things through a new lens. In The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Hamid attempted to use the feelings already inside the reader to create the world. In “Enduring Love of the Second Person,” Hamid writes “to try and show, after the terror attacks of 9/11, how feelings already present inside a reader – fear, anger, suspicion, loyalty- could color a narrative so that the reader, as much as or even more than the writer, is deciding what is really going on.” He wants to use the second person to pull the feeling already in ourselves into the material that is used to make the set for The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Rashid Khalifa’s two nicknames are the Ocean of Notions, and the Shah of Blah. One possible reason his fans call him Ocean of Notion is because he is joyful and enthusiastic. Another possible reason they call him Ocean of Notion is because he has so many stories, just like the ocean is immense. He has many stories to share with everyone, including
Language is a vital key to humans all throughout the world and in constant change, never still. One cannot argue language does not influence daily decisions while it is also a powerful tool, capable of doing anything. In retrospect, whoever beholds the correct authority over language ultimately possesses power over the people. Multiple different tactics of language are put to use in order to achieve certain objectives, whether the manipulation comes from social media, propaganda, or even fear, it hides behind the deception. Within George Orwell’s book,1984, and Saul Alinsky's opinionated statement,“ he who controls the language controls the masses” demonstrates prodigious illustrations of how language morphs to one's advantage.
In the sub-continent when Muslims were demoralized and subjugated by Hindus many Muslims leaders and conquers stood up for the freedom of the Muslims in such brilliant personalities ALLAMA IQBAL MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH is one of them.