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My 8th Grade Rhetorical Devices

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Final essay By: peter Barrett Friendships, personality and a sense of humor these are all things you need to be successful in 8th grade. For example you need friend to support you, you need a good personality so people will like and respect you and a sense of humor so people don’t think your mean. I choose the song Wings by Macklemore because I think this song relates to My 8th grade because it is about thinking something is cool and then realizing it not about what you have but how you act. The first way this song (Wings) is like my 8th grade experience is how it is labeling things. In my 8th grade experience everyone was labeled and that usually would determine who you would hang around or are friends with. Some people thrived

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