Today’s Discussion
To make it easier to handle, I’ve separated the notes on Aristotle’s Books into different webpages. Here’s our airtight, no-veering plan:
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. We looked at the ASPCA webpage and the Morens & Fauci article last class, so, time permitting, we’ll examine the others and more:
- Bottom of January 25th’s page
- 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…
- Like Race, Like Gender
- The final paragraph is a better choice to analyze
- Intro to Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather (1972)
Next Reading–Isocrates
Sticking with primary texts (compiled and translated after centuries), we’ll move onto Isocrates. Please read the first half (Part 1: ix-134) for next week and be thinking about what you’ll want to analyze for your Mini-Rhetorical Analysis (Due 3/01). Speeches, prefaces, and