Generic criticism is a method that seeks to understand how people react or respond to information that was given through a specific genre determining if the artifact was a good or bad example. Every genre has a set of expectations that have been developed over time through use of repetition and patterns. Determining if the artifact was placed in the right genre. Generic criticism looks into the situational, stylistic, and substantive elements of each genre and artifact. There are three different types of ways to analyze the artifact, the first is generic description, second is generic participation, and finally generic application. I will be using generic application to determine is Emma Gonzale’s speech “We Call BS” is an effective example of a persuasive speech. Generic application involves four steps to determine if the article is a good or poor example of the genre. When choosing to analyze through generic application is means that we take the genre and look at its situational, substantive and stylistic strategies and compare them to the artifact that was placed in that …show more content…
She is very involved and a leader in many clubs, she is the president of gay-straight alliances, a leader in project Aquila, and she is a part of AP governor at school. Emma wrote and delivered this speech regarding the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 17, 2018 going viral and gaining a lot of attention. The Stoneman shooting happened on February 14, 2018 in parkland Florida, where 17 teens were murdered by 19 year old and former student Nikolas Cruz. After this speech Emma had an interview with Ellen and was talked about through all social media outlets. The speech consisted of how she personally felt as a victim and how unjustice the system is on gun control. Her overall goal in the speech was to gain attention from everyone listening or watching and pressure the lawmakers in changing gun
Instead of playing with dolls and ribbons, eight year olds of the early twentieth century were working in factories making them. At this time there was no regulation or policies dictating when or where a young girl could work. In 1905, Florence Kelley delivered a speech advocating for the helpless children being sent to work by their parents. She emphasizes the need for change in the working environment and the underlying need for women sufferage. Kelley presents her argument with an appeal to the emotions, a call to action, and the use of examples in order to encourage the voter to put an end to child labor.
This ultimately cultivates to the pinnacle of her speech towards the end where she makes her call to action via the crowd shouting in response to her calls at the Capitol building. These calls and shouts from the crowd demonstrate Jones’s ability to rouse the crowd to her
The first type of genre that will be examined is the news article genre. This is the primary genre that is used to relay news and events about the...
With all the different types of literature we have in our world, we also have a similar amount of interpretations of those pieces of literature. Each interpretation is as valid as the other. Literature not only allows the writer to create a wonderful world and a story, it allows the reader to fully embrace the story and find meaning out of it. There are also many different types of literary criticisms. These criticisms are vehicles or guidelines for us to use to understand the reading in a very specific way and really pinpoint the issues and overall theme of the story.
The goal of Hillary’s speech is to persuade her audience that her ideas are valid, by using ethos, pathos, and logos. Hillary is the First Lady and Senator, she shows credibility as an influential activist for woman rights. “Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my country and around the world” (Clinton 2).
A literary analysis paper argues an opinion based on the piece of literature being evaluated. A literary analysis starts with a clear and concise thesis outlining what the essay is going to contain. A writing is considered a literary analysis when it answers the questions “who”, “what”, “when”, “where”, and “how”. Textual evidence is used to explain different descriptions throughout the writing. For example, quotes and other pieces of evidence are used to explain specific facts about characters and the plot.
task of speaking to secure her own freedom when she was placed on trial for obstructing the draft in 1917. The country was awash in patriotism, and she was prosecuted as an enemy of the state. When preparing her speech, she realized that a seated jury would be a microcosm of the country's national spirit. Jurors may have had children or loved ones committed or lost to the Great War. Her position, though heartfelt and eloquently expressed, with an attempt to express her own patriotism, was subversive and threatening to the population.
Poor, young children being forced to work nearly 24 hours day is a terrible evil that is no longer necessary in the 21st century, thanks to those willing to fight against it. One of those people was lover of freedom Florence Kelley. At the National American Woman Association on July 22, 1905, she gave a speech urging the women to ally with “workingmen”, ln 89, to vote against unfair child labor laws. In her speech, Kelley uses appeals to empathy, sympathy, logic, ethos, repetition, word choice, tone, and current events to defend her case.
There were several new concepts that were introduced to me this semester including the topic of genre. I found out that it was more than a classificatory tool. According to Bawarshi and Reiff, genre has changed into “a shaper of texts, meanings, and social actions”. In other words, genres are used to change and influence social interactions and to produce meaning-
...n our country. She’s saying that the advancement of women is getting stuck between a rock and a hard place. This was such a strong point in her speech because it shed light into the logical thinking, and made a historical connection to slavery. By making this connection, she was able to help many see that women were convicted slaves to the current state of the union.
People started to open their ears and their hearts. Her overall purpose is to show that there is a gap between men and women that cannot be overlooked and sidestepped for any longer. Women don't only deserve the right to vote, but they deserve the same rights as men. Applying logos, juxtaposition, and strong use of diction to her speech, she connects to her audience and reveals to them the reasons why what she is saying is crucial to the country.
Now, reader response criticism is very different. In our text book for class it is portrayed by these three key facts:
The speech that was analyzed was “Your Body Language Shape Who You Are” by social psychologist, Amy Cuddy. Amy explained in her speech that other people’s and your body language can display how a person can perceive themselves in a power dominance situation. Also, Cuddy described how an individual can change how a room of people views them by simply arranging their posture. Amy Cuddy gave an effective speech by her delivery of the topic, her credibility on the subject, and how she kept the audience engage.
Literature is an intricate art form. In order to attempt to understand the meanings and ideas within literary work, there are many forms of criticism that propose different approaches to its interpretation. Each criticism is crucial to the understanding of how individuals interpret literary works. Since each criticism has a different approach to enrich the understanding literary works, the question is raised whether one criticism should be used over others, whether a certain combination of criticisms should be used, or whether all criticisms should be taken into account. This may all be dependent on the reader’s individual preference or opinion, but each criticism presented builds on the others to create a well-rounded and unique understanding
Renowned British actress and activist for the feminist movement, Emma Watson, in her speech to the United Nations, “HeForShe,” argues that gender discrimination is a plague to human civilization. Watson’s purpose is to sway the audience that gender inequality has to come to an end, with the support of men and women as advocates for egalitarianism. Additionally, she enlightens the audience that the problem originated from political affairs, the economy, and social disparity. Watson creates a compassionate tone in order to convey men, specifically those who negatively perceived feminism or did not think that feminist issues affected them. Nevertheless, Watson’s speech is ineffectively persuasive due to the poor description she formulated