Like The Magic Golden Flower Rhetorical Analysis

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Like the Magic Golden flower, Rhetorical analysis, argumentative, and synthesis essays are mysterious, helpful, and complex. However, before you start writing one, you should know what each one is about.

Rhetorical analysis essays asks you to analyze a literary piece of writing where you are expected to identify the particular methods the author uses to persuade his/her audience. You are also expected to explain how those particular methods affect the author’s claim and appeal to the audience.

Argumentative essays asks you to make a claim (support/against) a certain topic where you are expected to use and evaluate sources to back it up, whether it’s given to you or on the top of your head.

Synthesis essays

After analyzing the prompt, brainstorm a claim for which your whole essay will be focused on. It’s important to note that the claim will differ depending on what type your essay is.

Tip: Don’t mumble your claim, you know how the teachers hate the mumbling. In other words, don’t make your claim seem weak and submissive. Instead, make it more assertive as if you have total confidence over your positions. If you want to make your claim better, factors like word choice and sentence structure can change that.

Weak example: I think F. Scott Fitzgerald’s claim in his book “The Great Gatsby” is how people, like Gatsby, would go do stuff to change their identity just to fit in, only to realize that they’re never going to. I strongly agree with his statement.

Better example: F. Scott Fitzgerald in his book “The Great Gatsby,” claims that the American Dream is an illusion and that people, notably Gatsby, would go do extraordinary things, like changing their identity, to achieve it, only to realize that it’s a mere

Argumentative claims should include your own opinion, meaning what side you’re on in the debatable topic, along with some type of support to back it up

Example: The non-fiction book, “Into the Wild,” is a great representation of transcendentalism because it encompasses themes dealing with nature, society, anti-materialism, and spiritual growth.

Synthesis claims should include your own opinion on the debatable given topic, which will be later supported by connecting the different given sources.

Example: Despite critics’ beliefs that college is necessary for economical and personal reasons, the cost of it is not worth it as there are many other ways to achieve economic and personal growth.

For all 3 types of essays, you’ll need an introduction. Lucky for you, for all types of essays, the formatting of the introduction is relatively the same. The introduction should be short and simple, only including a brief summary of the topic and the thesis statement (claim). A hook (something to grab the reader’s attention) and T.A.G (Title, Author Genre) is