Books 2 & 3 of On Rhetoric
To make it easier to handle, I’ve separated the notes on Aristotle’s Books into different webpages:
Mini-Rhetorical Analysis Examples
I hope we devote class time to looking at passages for their rhetorical effect(s). I don’t want to ignore the nuances of our figures, but, honestly, we’ll be glossing over lots because we can’t possibly cover everything. Again, we could spend an entire semester just on Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, but we have other figures to consider to help build our understanding of rhetorical theory broadly. I have links to passages and examples below:
- Some of these may be on multiple class webpages
- ASPCA: Breaking: Bad News for Slaughter-Bound Birds
- If we’re really needing obvious messages for rhetorical analysis:
- “WHO Guidance: Healthy People Should Wear Masks Only When ‘Taking Care Of’ Coronavirus Patients”
- “Emerging Pandemic Diseases: How We Got to COVID-19”
- Their article mentions “The Plague of Athens,” which was a precursor to Athens’ defeat by Sparta and their political decline in the Ancient Greek world
- Last Seen: Finding Family after Slavery
- The Clinton Presidency: Expanding Education Opportunity
- No Child Left Behind
- You’ll no doubt see policy similarities in these last two, but try to focus on the rhetorical similarities.
- Ethos, pathos, logos
- “Look at how much I/we care…” rhetoric
- “Left-Handed Commencement Address,” Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
- You might be surprised to learn it was about States’ right–singular…
- Georgia: “The prohibition of slavery in the Territories is the cardinal principle of this organization.”
- South Carolina: Mentions “slavery” 6 times, “slave-holding” 5 times.
- Wait a minute…Nikki Haley’s from South Carolina, and she didn’t know this?
- Like Race, Like Gender
- The final paragraph is a better choice to analyze
- Intro to Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather (1972)
- I think I said not to do visuals, but you can definitely do that for this assignment.