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Keep Memory Alive Rhetorical Devices

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Lacie Grant
World Literature 1
Mrs. Gray
1 February 2023
Keep Memory Alive and The American Idea

“Age shall not wear them, nor the years condemn. When we go down and in the morning, We will remember them.” A quote by Laurence Binyan. In the essays, “Keep Memory Alive” and “The American Idea,” the author uses Rhetorical devices and appeals to be able to explain their reasoning more thoroughly.Some Rhetorical devices are Logos, Pathos and Ethos. The author, Theodore H. White, for the essay “The American Idea”, was born May 6, 1915, in Dorchester, Boston. Elie Wiesel, the author for "Keep Memory Alive”, was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, which is now part of Romania. These essays are about both the Holocaust and the Declaration of Independence. “Keep Memory Alive,” is based on the Holocaust and a lot more during this time. This essay uses Rhetorical devices and appeals. In Wiesel's essay, it states, “ We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Meaning people who are silent during this time did not choose to take a side and speak up. “Keep Memory Alive” was on the behalf of the survivors and the children. It had also stated about the …show more content…

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Theodore H. White all wrote the Declaration of Independence. This essay also uses rhetorical devices and appeals, such as Pathos, Logos, and Ethos. An excerpt from the Declaration of Independence was stated in the essay, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This sentence is Rhetorical, and it is Ethos because it is referring to someone

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