Imagine arriving home at 8 o'clock, and two hours later it is still day. In the past years, artificial light has affected the environment and humans everywhere, as explained by Paul Bogard in "Let There Be Dark." He explains the effects artificial light has on our environment and health, and uses persuasive skills to inform the public about this specific topic. He engages the reader with his expertise, and leaves them wanting to know more and make a change. Paul Bogard persuades his audience by using reasoning, adding factual evidence, and appealing to emotions. Bogard appeals to pathos, the reader's emotions, and tugs at the reader's heartstrings. By asking, “Who knows what this vision of the night sky might inspire in each of us, in our children or grandchildren?” Bogard draws out importance about the affecting power of an untainted night sky. He relates the problem to others' experiences, families, and future generations to better get the point across. Through the emotion Bogard induces, readers suddenly feel defensive in preserving the darkness for the sake of their mental and physical health. …show more content…
Secondly, Paul Bogard uses reasoning as a way to persuade his audience.
He talks about his topic in a logical, sensible way which appeals to the reader. He uses reasoning by adding his personal experiences and imagery to the text. Bogard uses great imagery making the audience picture what he saw and maybe make them want to experience it too. Moreover, Bogard utilizes logical reasoning to disclose the severity of destruction caused by ever-present light pollution, while still using statistical evidence throughout his article to reveal the profound influence of “too much artificial light at night” has on humans, ecology, and animals. The logical reasoning is crucial in persuading his audience because it makes his text, opinion, and information more credible and
coherent. Lastly, factual evidence is used to persuade the reader. Paul Bogard has done research, and uses it to better support his standpoint. Bogard states, "In the United States and Western Europe, the amount of light in the sky increases an average of about 6% every year.... Much of this light is wasted energy, which means wasted dollars." He knows how much artificial light and darkness affects life, and uses it, along with personal experiences, to better elaborate his stance. Also, he explains how wildlife is being affected, and extends his argument beyond humans, allowing the audience to understand that darkness does not only have an impact on humans, but on nature as well. Paul Bogard persuades his audience and extends the facts used in the text to offer various solutions to wasted and excessive light. Bogard perfects the idea of crafting a complex argument that is easy to understand by making different thoughts and ideas more accesible. His argument is carefully constructed, consisting of support from a wide range of sources, his appeal to pathos, and his logical and sensible way of expanding on the topic. All in all, the use of different features to persuade an audience help Paul Bogard appeal to a broader audience.
The author illustrates the “dim, rundown apartment complex,” she walks in, hand and hand with her girlfriend. Using the terms “dim,” and “rundown” portrays the apartment complex as an unsafe, unclean environment; such an environment augments the violence the author anticipates. Continuing to develop a perilous backdrop for the narrative, the author describes the night sky “as the perfect glow that surrounded [them] moments before faded into dark blues and blacks, silently watching.” Descriptions of the dark, watching sky expand upon the eerie setting of the apartment complex by using personification to give the sky a looming, ominous quality. Such a foreboding sky, as well as the dingy apartment complex portrayed by the author, amplify the narrator’s fear of violence due to her sexuality and drive her terror throughout the climax of the
One ordinary man finds himself standing in a colossal room. He looks into the audience, seeing an overwhelming amount of strangers who each share a slightly different opinion on the subject at hand. How can one individual spark a fire in the minds of such an eclectic group? Al Gore, an American politician and environmentalist, encounters this exact situation. He wishes to spread his message on global warming and inspire the audience to take action. Persuading just one person is an arduous task, but effectively confronting an entire audience requires extensive knowledge on persuasive tactics. The speaker must have a playbook containing an array of rhetorical strategies that are dispersed throughout the entire presentation. The playbook needs
...an is capable of persuading his audience into accepting his simplistic views of the world. He makes it easier to rationalize with his stance by his strategic use of sentence structure and word choice. When analyzing a past speech or interpreting a speech as it is given, upmost priority should be given to analytical tools for analyzing persuasive symbols and language. Whether the topic at hand is motivated by great emotions as it is here or not, the audience can easily be swayed in one direction surprisingly based only on universal comprehension.
Authors and speakers alike use some type of persuasion on their intended audience. They often try to make you agree with their argument before considering other factors. Persuasive writing often has a copious amount of logical fallacies, defined by the Perdue Online Writing Lab as “errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic”, despite that they tend to have success with sympathetic audiences. Wendell Berry’s essay “The Whole Horse” is an example. Berry is likely to persuade his conservationist audience because of his use of emotive language.
As Theoden’s soldiers embark on a journey towards defending Gondor, they had yet to seize the motivation and power needed to become victorious in the battle. They had gazed upon the enemy’s great army and brutalness that awaited them at a hilltop, and have increasingly lost all hope and energy. Theoden, understanding the importance of the battle and the physical and mental exhaustion of his soldiers, had stimulated encouragement during a short address promptly before the epic battle took place. Taking advantage of the situation of a sun peeking out through Sauron’s clouds, Theoden had vitalized his army by instilling appeals to emotion as well as a dynamic tone within his brief speech.
In today’s society, we are exposed to countless amounts of compositions such as novels and films. However, when an individual reads a book or watches a movie, they subconsciously create connections to the plot as they relate it to their own lives. After the movie is completely watched one is able to sit down and ask himself, “Did I like that movie?” While an average person could give a simple yes or no answer, a professional in the field of reviewing movies and novels knows that the quality of the movie is directly related to its rhetorical effectiveness. If one were to attempt an analysis of a film or book’s rhetorical effectiveness, they would need to reference what is called the “Rhetoric Triangle” which is comprised of Ethos, Logos and Pathos. These three devices can be classified as tools for persuasion, thus, a great piece of work will have each of these tools. An excellent example of a novel that successfully incorporates each of these forms of rhetoric is titled The Lightning Thief and was written by Rick Riordan and published in 2005. Riordan made this book so successful through his vivid portrayal of a Greek mythological world hiding within reality all across America. The written genre of The Lightning Thief provided the foundation for Chris Columbus to create film adaptation of the novel in 2010. Chris Columbus’ film representation of the novel The Lightning Thief (2005), while proving to be disappointing in regards to the plot when compared to the novel, both representations were able to clearly create connections to Aristotle’s three ingredients for persuasion: Ethos, Logos and Pathos.
As society continuously expands, building new structures, light pollution becomes increasingly problematic. Paul Bogard addresses this problem and argues against the increasing light pollution in his writing, “Let There Be Dark.” Through his use of the ethos and pathos, Bogard attempts to persuade his audience of the beauty of natural darkness.
The author then uses darkness to describe the faces of the adults on Sunday evenings after dinner when everyone is relaxing with their own thought's. "For a moment nobody's talking but every face looks darkening, like the sky outside...The silence, the darkness coming and the darkness in the faces frighten the child obscurel...
Time after time it seems like people have tried to depict what our society true and often hidden image represents. One artist, Lauryn Hill, executed this topic exquisitely in her song “Mystery of Iniquity” produced in 2002. In this song she incorporates several verses from the bible n her lyrics to relate the underlying corruption of the law system on society and how it affects people. The first few lines of the song incorporate the same lyrics in the title where it states, “It's the mystery of Inequity, said it's the misery of inequity, said it's the history of inequity.” Here we see she uses these lines to introduce what she will essentially be discussing throughout the song as this expression is found in the book of 2 Thessalonians 2:7 in
“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night-sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.” This elaborate simile creates a mental image of the natural beauty of the young princess, Irene, by comparing her eyes to the night sky. The simile also parallels the depth of Irene’s soul to the dark, endless night sky.
“Alvin, are you lighting another cigarette? Honestly, Alvin, can’t you at least try to sleep?”
Contrast intensifies the sense of gloom. The windy, bleak, December night is contrasted to a room full of books, ric...
On the third and sixth paragraph of Paul Bogard's "Let There Be Dark" Bogard addresses the readers and their kin. "But now, when 8 out of 10 children born in the United States will never know a sky dark enough for the Milky Way." Bogard uses the emotions of his readers to show that we need darkness. He claims that out of ten children only two will be able to witness the Milky Way. "Those of us over 35 are perhaps among the last generation to have known truly dark nights." Bogard pulls in his readers of which are born after
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I felt how powerful the night can be for people, it is a time where there is little activity, the modern world seems to stop and old custom became alive. The study of Edward Hopper greatly influenced the way I went about the