Rhetorical Analysis Of I M Muslim, But My Roommate Supports Trump

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In wake of recent political changes and transitions, Romaissaa Benzizoune writes an article entitled “I'm Muslim, but My Roommate Supports Trump.” Clearly, just from the title, this piece targets emotional appeals and is employed in order to draw in an audience that was negatively targeted in Donald J. Trump's rhetoric during his campaign trail. Benzizoune reflects on her emotions and actions following the realization that her roommate is a Trump supporter, and then transfers that experience into a more scholarly-level argument and ends with an emotional call to action.
To start off the article, Benzizoune writes “When she outed herself to me as a Trump supporter,” it immediately insinuates there is a stigma associated with that particular …show more content…

The lack of smooth transition from one idea to another illustrates the devastating pertinence that being a Trump supporter has to the author. To even further demonstrate the profound effect the roommate's political affiliation has on her, Benzizoune employs the use of figurative language to insinuate the tragic injustice of the situation: “the country slowly fell to red.” Using the word “fell” implies that the country lost a battle, and was taken over by Trump supporters. Following a paragraph of raw emotion demonstrated through syntax and language, Benzizoune transitions into a different style—her article introduces facts and a more scholarly-level argument and …show more content…

She describes the aftermath of “the ugly truth,” Trump's victory, where “[t]he emboldened silent majority speckled the streets.” Benzizoune creates a sense of militaristic fear by describing how she “was struck by a feeling that their caps were a military uniform, that our country was at civil war, and that [she] was a target.” By writing her fearful sentiments using a precise choice of words, she is encouraging and invoking an emotional response in the target audience. Benzizoune relates the newly-empowered Trump supporters to a military unit that are threatening her ability to safely exist. The author wants to stir up emotional responses and reactions to her story—and Benzizoune's powerful military comparison does just

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