Onion Rhetorical Analysis Essay

In the funniest publication, The Onion, the author uses satire to criticize people and expose them to their stupidity or vice, typically in politics or other recent and popular issue. Satire is used through the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. In this mock press release from The Onion it is made to mock the release and the reasoning for the creating on MagnaSoles, which are shoe inserts. The author of this hilarious work of art writes this to criticize the concept of these shoe soles doing all the amazing things they are said to do, they are just basic shoe inserts. The author uses exaggeration and overstatements to achieve his goal of mocking the shoe soles and their release.

This approach allows the author to use pathos again and emotionally feed the readers empathy and try to persuade them to see his point of view. In the article, it states, "Her boy has never been to the doctor or a dentist and last bathed since he was 2 [He was 10 at the time the article was written], so a sweatshop job by comparison would be far more pleasant and less dangerous." (120). To get his message across, Kristof uses families with children as his examples. Children are typically used to reach into the hearts of society, therefore it was wise of him to use a type of pathos involving kids.

The Onion uses satirical humor to poke fun at modern advertisements and the gullibility of Americans have by mocking the techniques used to sell consumer goods; it does this through its mocking publication of a product called MagnaSoles. This article uses quotes from customers that have bought MagnaSoles, subtle jokes and puns, and the over exaggeration of the sciences implemented by Magnasoles. The article is rampant with subtle hints, jokes, and puns that key the reader in that this article is a joke. With the use of "pseudoscientists" and "pseudoscience" used throughout the article, as well as the "scientific-sounding literature", this is an indicator that this is not real science talking. It also makes fun of the use of making a paper seem more credible through its constant

Correct punctuation is the focus of the book Eats, Shoots, Leaves by Lynne Truss, a self-labeled "zero tolerance approach to punctuation" (Truss). Grammarian, Lynne Truss, attempts to interest the everyday reader in punctuation by using comical situations and correcting popular signs and slogans. Her "inner stickler", however, makes the book come across as pretentious and aggravating to the non-sticklers of the world. Truss uses inappropriate examples such as sticklers getting "very worked up after 9/11 not because of Osama bin-Laden but because people on the radio kept saying 'enormity' when they meant 'magnitude'," since sticklers "really hate that" (Truss 5). The breakdown of the most popular forms of punctuation are useful, but made barely readable due to the author's sense of humor and pretentiousness regarding the subject.

In the essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” (1999), Jennifer Price details the natural history of American culture and its pretentious ideals, while criticizing Americans for their frivolity during the 1900’s. Price illuminates her ideas by utilizing colorful diction, irony, alliteration, and a pink flamingo as a symbol of American destructiveness and superficiality. Utilizing pop culture references, Price’s purpose is to highlight American culture for being obsessed with trends and commercializing them instead of appreciating the genuine beauty within them. Price’s ostensible audience are American people to whom she addresses in a satirical tone while poking fun of for being ignorant and materialistic. Price commences her essay with a critical tone and colorful diction to ridicule the flamboyance when pink flamingos “splashed” into the fifties market.

After retrieving the chemicals, Jekyll offers the opportunity for Jekyll to explain the mysterious mission and take the potion. Jekyll describes the consequences seeing the effects of the potion will have saying, “your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.”(71) The word “Satan” is used in contrast with the word “prodigy” which has a positive connotation. Although giving in to temptation and discovering the power of the potion is amazing and “prodigal” it has negative consequences suggested by the words “Satan”. Soon after,

Third, is it’s display of the condom giving you the notion that there is an underlined pone as well as who the company is and what’s their main product. Pathos is used to capture the viewer’s attention and to question the idea displayed. Both logos and pathos are the main object of because the company is trying each angel to make the consumer use their emotion and logic to see it their way, by questioning their products

This is presented in @dampsandwich 's Tumblr post, "its garbage day??? I cant believe they made a day dedicated to me :)." Posts like this demonstrate millennials are their own greatest critics, and, unfortunately, their critical posts consume social media. They are willing to portray themselves in a negative light and distance themselves from the majority, simply for approval and laughs. Millennials ' humor "aims to play with [and manipulate] ... moods and emotions" instead of "trying to restore meaning and sense" (Bruenig).

Alan is a literal symbol of a chaser as he is directly pursuing Diana. The life-cleaner is a figurative symbol of a chaser since that potion is like the second drink or shot, taken after a harsh first alcoholic drink, to offset the foul effects of the first drink. Thus, the life-cleaner potion is the equivalent of the second drink, to be taken to counteract the appalling effects of the first drink, the love potion. By using symbolism, Collier is able to better connect his message to his plot. Further, when Collier writes, “Lives need cleaning sometimes,” the author is being metaphorical.

Gulliver’s Travels uses humor, irony and exaggerations to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or their behaviors in the society which needs to be corrected. The novel Gulliver’s travels is a satire and a fantasy and it can additionally represent comedy, travelogue and science fiction as well. Gulliver’s Travels can represent the genre of comedy other than satire and a fantasy novel. This novel contains ridiculous situations which satirize mankind such as politicians, scientist and Englishmen in general who are fit to be laughed on. After Gulliver reaches the island of Lilliput he finds out that the emperor elects his high court officials by examining their skills with ribbon where they have to jump and dance on it.

In this passage Gladwell is explaining to the reader how Bill Gates got every lucky and he didn’t have just himself to thank for his success. Explaining that he never would have been able to get over 10,000 worth of experience if a few things didn’t happen to him. Once again Gladwell uses a list to get his point across as he did before, I enjoy this writing tool because it gets the point across that there is so many reasons on how his talents mixed with a lot of luck got him to where he is today. Along with the list I also enjoy that without meaning to Gladwell comes off silently sassy with the way he writes or maybe the way I read it. For example when “Opportunity number one was that Gates got sent to Lakeside.

In article “A Plagiarism Pentimento” the author Rebecca Moore Howard represent a debate statement argument on a topic of frequent appearance of plagiarism. She believes that the guidelines provided suggestion in responding to plagiarism in any type of methods. In her deep researcher for corroboration in plagiarism she acknowledge that “patchwriting” should be complete in the correct proper format of using author’s passages in quotations, paraphrasing main ideas of original sources in your own words, and citing in safe conditions all figures. She does not agree that “patchwriting” should be counted as action of plagiarism. Rebecca also points out that summary-writing of original text not only be leaned and comprehend but also should be examine

PART I: In the essay, What’s in a Name? authors, Karen A. Cerulo & Janet M. Ruane assess the significance of a name in society. They begin by discussing how the influence and importance of names are vastly underestimated and under looked in the fields of social science and literature. Furthermore the authors state. “Indeed, names in our society function as powerful symbols - arbitrary signs that come to be endowed with special meanings and, ultimately, gain the ability to influence behaviors, attitudes, and emotions” (Cerulo & Ruane, 79).

The first section of your syllabus entitled “What We’re Doing in This Course, and Why” intrigued me. Specifically, due to its mention of the concept of rhetorical thinking being used to figure out what to say and how to say it. To me, this section encompasses all disciplines who tend to use different words to describe how you present an argument both in a correct and incorrect manner (framing, bias, logical fallacies ect.). I’m interested to see how different disciplines utilize this skill from simply being as bland and logical as possible such as in a scientific paper, or to making an effort to persuade an audience in a speech such as in a debate. As in any class worth taking I expect there to be challenges when dealing with the course material

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