Rhetorical Devices Used In Journey To Success

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Omar Diaz
Author’s Statement
Why and how I create my Poem “Journey to Success”


Poems are always amazing to tell a short story that is inspiring and full of imagery. My purpose of why I create this poem was to tell a story of someone who goes through a one year journey to losing weight. Poems are good to show lots of emotion and that what I hope to get out of it.
My audience is going to be for people who want to read a good before and after story of someone who changes their life around to make a difference in himself. They should expect lots of imagery, lots of figurative language and some bits of rhyme. I want my audience to take picture the hard work this person has to go through to get where he wants to.
The rhetorical appeals I use for my poem is pathos and ethos. Where I use ethos is where I show the good from eating right and working out. I use lots of pathos because I want my readers to feel for the person in the poem. They will feel passionate for the person and great for him. It's a very touching poem and makes readers happy. There's not a lot of logos because its a story which is fiction. …show more content…

It starts off on January 1 of 2005 and ends on December 1, 2005. There are 12 stanzas each representing a month of the year. I use lots of similes because a poem is not a poem without similes. I also have some rhyme in there to make the reader feel like they are a child again. I also use imagery so the reader can picture the work this guy in putting in his journey to success. I constructed the poem in just text format, and I made it so 6 stanzas are on the right and the other 6 or on the left so it can give it the poem feel to it. I wish I put mini pictures so it can give it that poem feel that we had when we were kids. The tone of the piece is positive, happy because there's no reason to be sad or negative when going through a journey to

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