Methodology for the Analysis
Kenneth Burke, “The rhetorical theorist and critic who probably has had the greatest impact on rhetorical criticism as it is practiced today” (¬Foss, 2009, 63), revealed to the world the methodology of cluster analysis in an attempt to gain understanding about a rhetor’s worldview. In Samy Charnine’s nondiscursive paintings, words seem to explode off of the canvas and out at anyone who is viewing his work. The method of cluster analysis involves collection of these words, or key terms, and examination of what elements seem to cluster around them resulting in four steps of the method. Burke believed that the terms that one is able to gather from a discursive or nondiscursive artifact formulate that rhetor’s terminsitic screen, and become a way of showing to others whether consciously or subconsciously, the values, morals, and things that the rhetor holds to be of importance in life. Both verbal as well as visual communication brought out in an artifact can be of equal importance (Mukarovsky, 1977). Charnine’s paintings take a supportive stance on sustainability to be further elucidated through three steps.
Step one consists of finding the key terms that stand out in an artifact based on their frequency and intensity. Any word that continually comes to mind upon examination of the rhetor’s work is going to be important. An anaphora is such a rhetorical device that uses repetition to drill into the critic the idea being presented. In an argumentative ecological essay by Wallace Stegner he explained, “We need to demonstrate our acceptance of the natural world, including ourselves…we need the spiritual refreshment that being natural can produce”(Stegner, 2000, 534). In this case, the frequency of saying “...
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In print, typology refers to the process of using a plate or stamper to produce a text en masse. The prototypical basis or antitype from which subsequent pages are created is illegible, reversed, and unique. Comparatively, the reflection or type that the reader sees lacks the inherent perfection of the original, but in its reproduction gains accessibility and legibility. This model of stamper and stamp, of plate and page, also serves as a rhetorical contrivance for theologians and authors to suggest a relationship of creator and creation. Born from the human need to explain the world around us, figurative typology grants authors the ability to interpret a confusing existence in the patterns of types and antitypes. Following the general climate
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In analyzing McBride’s essay the rhetorical devices found to be used were logos and pathos. First, it will be sho...
Pipher writes of her experience reading Twyla Hansen’s article that “encourages land owners to plant slow-growing shade trees” (439). “After reading Hansen’s article,” Pipher states, “I bought a sycamore” (439). Along with personal experience in the specific example, Pipher uses allegory to convey the effect of writing using a much more corporeal and understandable example. By using allegory, Pipher’s concept of the significance of writing is “dumbed down” to make it quite clear and understandable to even the least educated
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In the essay “Ways of Seeing” written by John Berger, Mr. Berger makes his attempt to inform an audience with an academic background that there is a subjective way that we see things all around us every day and based on our previous experiences, knowledge, and other things that occur in our lives, no two people may see or interpret something in the same way. In the essay Mr. Berger uses art as his platform to discuss that we should be careful about how people look at things. Mr. Berger uses rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and logos. These rhetorical strategies can really help an author of any novel, essay, or any literature to truly get the information they desire across to the audience in a clear and concise manner.
As the quarter progressed, these ten weeks into the course, writing 39C had taught me a lot about the true meaning of Rhetoric and Research. Earlier, in this course, I acknowledged that “Rhetoric” is the art of persuasion that is endeavored by the human beings to persuade individuals with their words. Moreover, as I acquired additional information about the research and rhetoric in this course, I also identified that rhetoric is always around us, but most of the time we do not happen to see it. We are always already in the rhetorical situation which we have used the rhetoric since the day we start living our first moment of our life. There is always someone who is trying to persuade us in some way. After few weeks of learning “what rhetoric
It may be time to consider a literary work not as a predetermined product cast in a deterministic mold, but as a dynamic system that transcends the prevailing assumptions that are supposed to define its identity. The formal definitions can be just external to the composition of the text since we cannot expect the reader to know exactly what the author intended to write without falling into the trap of intentional fallacy.
Another rhetorical strategy incorporated in the poem is imagery. There are many types of images that are in this poem. For example, the story that the young girl shares with the boy about drowning the cat is full of images for the reader to see:
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