Writing a song is certainly a difficult task, there are many techniques used in the making of songs. The artist writes a song very carefully in order to properly convey the message to the listeners. Some songs in particular use a lot of techniques to show the listener their reason for creating the song. There are so many different themes a song can portray. “The Hall of Fame” is one of those songs. The point of this song is to inspire people going through a tough time, and show them they can get through it and become something great. The Script’s song “Hall of Fame” uses rhetorical devices in a way that makes the listener understand that in order to overcome every obstacle life has, the listener has to fight for it. Allusion, or word or phrase
designed to call something to mind, without mentioning that thing explicitly, is used in the song, “Hall of Fame” written by The Script, to make you think you can be just as powerful as King Kong. In line 3 of the song the lyrics, “You could be the King Kong banging on your chest, ” is said. The writer picked this allusion in particular because when you think of something big and strong that can’t be destroyed, you would think of a character like King Kong. They also want you to compare yourself to King Kong and to convince yourself that you can be just as empowered as he is. King Kong is a pretty well-known character which is another reason he was picked specifically. When you hear the allusion about King Kong it also causes imagery to happen. This helps the audience visually imagine King Kong banging on his chest which would show that King Kong in inferior to most all things. These things can make you think you can be just as powerful as King Kong, which is why The Script chose to use an allusion. In “Hall of Fame” written by The Script uses anaphora, the repetition of phrases in successive clauses, as a way to emphasize that one can become a champion. In the song, the line, “You can be a champion,” is repeated multiple times. When the audience hears this, it gives the song rhythm, making it easy to remember and pleasurable to hear. This, also, gives the song an artistic effect by repeating the same line over and over again. The constant repeating of the same line really gives emphasis to it and makes the listener believe they can be a champion and do anything they set their mind to. In the music video, they show the struggle that the people overcome to motivate the audience if they are too going through a tough time, they can do it too. They, also, show images of a man that looks like a boxer succeeding and getting the trophy to show the audience that it is worth the fight. They show the image of the man many times to make the listener imagine themselves “getting the trophy” or the thing that they have been wanting to accomplish. All these things can contribute to your motivation of wanting to become a champion more after hearing the song becauses anaphora mentions it so much. The way that The Script’s “Hall of Fame’ uses rhetorical devices to motivate the listener that in order to overcome every obstacle that life has, the listener has to fight for it. Songs are not just something your hear, they are something you can feel too. Songs can bring out a lot of emotion in people and helps them get through tough times and express their feelings. The next time you are feeling desperate, depressed, or distressed, maybe you will think about turning on your radio and really listening to the lyrics to make you feel a bit better and to push you through those tough times.
The speech I chose was Cal Ripken Jr.’s it was given at the Orioles home ball park, Camden Yards at his last home game before retiring. It is a special occasion speech and was given in front of over 48,000 fans. He used a tried and true opening sentence that although a little altered had a very familiar ring. He opened with “As a kid, I had this dream” a very loose but familiar take on MLK’s “I have a dream”. This was a great attention getter and probably had people on their feet immediately. This audience was already motivate to hear his speech so that was not an issue. Most of the fans were there for the purpose of hearing his retirement speech. He did not preview his points in the introduction he addressed those in the body of his speech one at a time. He did not try to establish credibility as he was speaking about himself so who knows more about him than himself.
Jared Diamond makes a great and compelling argument about how inequality across the entire globe originated. The main components that were agreeing with this argument were guns germs and steel. Guns meaning the advancement in weaponry, military warfare and military sophistication. Germs meaning the harmful disease and other foul illness that wiped out humans throughout History. Then the third and final point steel, which was about the advancement in societies and the complex sophistication with their technology, which lead to building great architecture and devices that were completely impactful.
Introduction Baseball Saved Us was written by Ken Mochizuki, a novelist, journalist and an actor. He is a native of Seattle, Washington located in the United States. After the war between the United States and Japan during World War II, is parents were forced to move to a Minidoka internment camp located in Idaho. He got his inspiration to write Baseball Saved Us when he read a magazine article about an Issei (a first generation Japanese American) man who established a baseball diamond and formed a league within the camps. Dom Lee, the Illustrator of the book, is a native of Seoul, South Korea.
Throughout the course of this novel, Ishmael Beah keeps the readers on the edge of their seat by incorporating interchanging tones. At the beginning of the novel, the tone can be depicted as naïve, for Beah was unaware to what was actually occurring with the rebels. Eventually, the tone shifts to being very cynical and dark when he depicts the fighting he has endured both physically and mentally. However, the most game changing tone is towards the end of the novel in chapters nineteen and twenty. His tone can be understood as independent or prevailing. It can be portrayed as independent because Beah learns how to survive on his own and to take care of himself. At the same time, it is perceived as prevailing and uplifting because Beah was able to demonstrate that there is hope. Later in the novel, Beah travels to
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
In addressing the Wellesley High School class of 2012, David McCullough, Jr., uses rhetorical devices such as logos, pathos and literacy devices to argue the uneasy fact to the grads that every person is not special and thus should not try to accomplish everything in life.
After reviewing this week’s episodes of serial, and given our topic, I found that the Rhetorical Appeals are directly linked to the court cases. These Rhetorical Appeals (Ethos, Pathos, and Logos), are used throughout both cases. From Jay’s case, it’s clear that Pathos and Ethos are two main elements supporting his defense. However in Adnan’s case, Logos was the prevalent appeal when defending his innocence.
Analyzing innocence has always been a difficult task, not only due to it’s rapid reevaluation in the face of changing societal values, but also due to the highly private and personal nature of the concept. The differences between how people prioritize different types of innocence - childhood desires, intellectual naivety, sexual purity, criminal guilt, etc. - continually obscures the definition of innocence. This can make it difficult for people to sympathize with others’ loss of purity, simply because their definition of that loss will always be dissimilar to the originally expressed idea. Innocence can never truly be adequately described, simply because another will never be able to precisely decipher the other’s words. It is this challenge, the challenge of verbally depicting the isolationism of the corruption of innocence, that Tim O’Brien attempts to endeavour in his fictionalized memoir, The
In the book David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, the author investigates the correlation between success and the circumstances involved in achieving such favorable outcomes. The argument that Gladwell forms states that despite what the societal norms are, those with less skill and noticeable setbacks can actually have an advantage over the naturally gifted. He then uses this argument to try and convince others that having talent doesn’t necessarily mean that you will always win or come out on top. To construct this argument and inform others of what he believes, Gladwell uses rhetorical strategies such as comparison/contrast, and studies/statistics to help validate his opinions and strengthen the argument at hand.
Politics is dirty and competitive and has not changed between 1879 and 2018. It is a complex system of jargon, charm, facts, and lies. Mark Twain’s “The Presidential Candidate” satirically expresses the essence of both old-world and modern politics as a presidential candidate who blatantly tells the truth of his wrongdoings. As a politician, one must be an open book. Their life must be truthfully written on the pages for the readers to analyze and evaluate their credibility as leaders. “The Presidential Candidate” resonates both in 1879 and 2018 with his use of humor, use of diction and use of subtlety.
Degage Ministries, in an attempt to assert its role as an entity that helps better society, appeals to ethos and pathos through their video “Homeless Veteran Timelapse Transformation”.
Song lyrics have set off a great generation of our leisure time than reading poetic devices, therefore song lyrics are better than poetic devices. Song lyrics have dropped numerous lines that attach to us now a days and make us listen to the line over and over unlike poetic devices. Song Lyrics have so much meaning by word choice and by relations.”Mr. Rager” by Kid Cudi, is about people fed up with society and plan on taking a journey. “Dreams” by Edgar Allen Poe, is about a man who dreams of a greater life. Mr. Rager, the song by Scott Cudi, has a better meaning than Dreaming, the poem by Edgar Allen Poe, by personification, allusion, and symbolism.
Early in history DDT was a very effective chemical that killed many parasites and stopped the mass spread of malaria. But the reward is not worth the damage that it does to the environment, especially in modern day where we have other ways to prevent parasite and diseases from getting to us. "Top of the Food Chain" by T. Coraghessan Boyle, is a story about the absolute absurdity of things that human beings do to their world and to their fellow living beings. Set during a Senate hearing by a chemical company executive on the defensive about the effects of DDT in Borneo. Basically, poison was used to get rid of mosquitoes. Didn't work. So they brought in geckos, that died from the poison. Cats ate dead geckos, and cats died. This brought on rat infestation. So they brought in more cats and cycle started over again. He is arguing that humans are wrong for destroying their planet with pesticides and other harmful things; this satirical piece effectively supports his argument.
Written by a renowned physicist, Albert Einstein, both passages were written for anybody who was interested in physics and economic ideologies. In the time when science and technology were rapidly developing, people sought for new information about physics and economy as they had to catch up with rapidly developing world. With developing technology, people, the audience of the passages A and B, had more access to media--which made Einstein’s high reputation as a physicist possible. Using different rhetorical approaches, such as qualifying language, grammatical tenses, and point of view, Einstein wrote passage A to explain the concept of physics--specifically, the relationship between time and space--while
Stern, was invited to the house of a Nazi memorabilia collector, Fritz Stiefel. He was led to believe that secret diaries were kept by Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler, after he had spotted a big black book in one of his display cases and was told the book was one of the six supposedly kept secret diaries. Heidemann saw an opportunity to have one of the biggest journalistic scoops of the 20th century if he were able to track down all the diaries and prove the books to be authentic. Since Heidemann wanted to purchase the books he knew his magazine Stern would give him the financial backing he needed, that was if he could prove to them that the diaries were authentic. So with that Heidemann went on to try and determine how Stiefel had managed to get