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Rhetorical Devices In How To Tame A Wild Tongue

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Rhetorical Analysis on Anzaldua’s How to Tame a Wild Tongue The passage How to Tame a Wild Tongue is a very defensive and straightforward argumentative essay which defends her language and the people who speak it against the discrimination that the author herself has experienced first hand (Ethos). From this text we can infer that the author is most likely from hispanic descent as she is speaking spanish a lot of the time throughout the text. This text mainly speaks about the discrimination many Mexican-Americans suffer because they are spanish speaking. This is a problem that may be passed unnoticed because many of us may believe that this is no longer a problem in our society but sadly keeps happening today. Through her use of pathos, by telling her story, the author is persuading people not to discriminate based on the language others speak. Her purpose is to inform the reader about this issue and hopefully help prevent it from continuing to happen. Anzaldua adopts a declamatory tone in order to help her …show more content…

Gloria explained that the discrimination continued when she attended the Pan-American University where her “and all the Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of [their] accent.” In this case the writer relied on the use of a colon to apprise the reader that the information that was going to be given after the colon will be very important. The writer also uses aphorism to describe what not being able to speak your naturalized language feels like when she writes, “en boca cerrada no entran moscas.” When writing this she is also hinting to her culture and to her identity as this saying is very common throughout the Mexican

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