Feeding Frenzy Rhetorical Analysis

Types Of Diction In “Feeding Frenzy”
Diction is the author’s word choice. The magazine, “Feeding Frenzy”, from Sports Illustrated by Richard Hoffer shows many types of diction. The magazine is about Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield’s boxing match in 1997. The three types of diction that stood out to me was violent, circus, and sarcastic. The author, Richard Hoffer, uses these three types of diction to show how violent, circus like, and how sarcastic the fight was to the people who saw it.
The first type of diction that stood out to me was violent. Hoffer shows this when he said “Tyson’s mouth reached Holyfield’s right ear and with a savagery that went well beyond what even his promoter could market” (Hoffer 2). This quote means that Tyson and Holyfield’s fight was even more violent than anyone thought it would be. Hoffer used violent diction again when he said “Tyson crunched down hard with his teeth and took a chunk right off” (Hoffer 2). This quote is used to show how awful the fight and the ear biting incident was.

Hoffer confirmes this when he said “The money counted and the tents folded, the circus finally left town” (Hoffer 1). Hoffer used this to show that the fight was like a circus. The fight was like a circus because they had packed up after they counted their money that they made off of their “animals”, which were Tyson and Holyfield. Another example of circus diction that Hoffer used is “if so, he neglectedto consider that, win or lose, he would be branded an animal, with people recoiling from him in horror” (Hoffer 2-3). This means that Tyson seemed to overlook the fact of how people would look at him for now on. People would look him as an animal and would be hit with horror when they saw him because of the fight. Circus diction was overall used to show how the fight was circus like and how the fighters, Tyson and Holyfield, were like animals at a circus on