For my rhetorical analysis assignment, my group had to write about a restaurant or public place where people would eat food. I chose to write about the University of South Alabama Cafeteria, also known as the Cafe. I went to the cafeteria and observed my surroundings and I myself also ate as well. I then wrote about the positives and the negatives of eating in the school’s cafeteria. While I wrote about what I observed that day in the cafe, I used three strategies of writing. By using the strategies of imagery, content, and tone a specific mood was created. In my descriptions, the use of imagery helps create a vivid image of what the cafeteria is to me. For example, when I describe the multiple smells that immediately hit my nose once I walk up the stairs and I …show more content…
I intentionally left out certain details in my descriptions to help create an emotional appeal. For example, I did not want to write about how long the walk is to the cafe and I did not want to talk about how the weather also affects the walk in the positive description. I did this because I did not want to say that the walk to the cafe is long as a turn off for the positive description. I furthermore did not talk about how the cafe offers a to-go-box option in the negative description. I did this because having a to-go-box is pointless if the food is not good. Basically the food is not worth taking back to your dorm room to eat. The tone used in the descriptions was also used to evoke a certain feeling. For example, in the positive description you can tell that I am excited that it is fried chicken Wednesday. I did this because I wanted to show that the cafeteria is an exciting place when they serve up fried chicken. Another example is, while I got to eat such a delicious meal I could not help but overhear the group of cackling females next to me. In the negative paragraph I said that to be sarcastic to create a negative, but yet a funny
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The one thing that any author must do when writing any sort of essay is to make it comprehensible to the reader. In order to achieve this, the author must utilize anything to get their point across or else the writing would be futile. In Turkeys in the Kitchen , Dave Barry gives his own personal stories about his Thanksgiving and how he feels that men aren’t as useful as women in the terms of the culinary arts (kitchen), Barry’s flippant tone and his use of rhetorical devices such as similes and irony bring forth a light hearted explanation of stereotypes between men and women as well as describing how men are useless in the kitchen. The uses of similes throughout the essay give purpose by showing how men are useless.
A Rhetorical Analysis of “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko Sara, a single mother of two kids, is driving home from a grueling day of work. She’s worked overtime all week and has some tightness in her back. Upon looking at the clock on the dashboard of her 1996 Volkswagen, she realizes that it is way too late to go home and cook a nice dinner for her two children. She turns into the nearest McDonalds, orders some chicken nuggets, and brings dinner home. Can you blame a mother who just wanted her kids to eat?
Food, Inc. leaks a certain mystery behind, which contains the true secrets about the journey food takes. Food, Inc., a documentary that demonstrates the current and growth method of food production since the 1950’s, is designed to inform Americans about a side of the food industry. Food Inc. also used persuasion to demonstrates some components of pathos, logos, and ethos while uncovering the mysterious side of the food industry in America. Robert Kenner, the director of Food, Inc., made this film for a purpose. Uncovering the hidden facts and secrets behind the food industry in America.
“French Fries” by Jane Martin is a monologue that utilizes vivid imagery, both natural and environmental. The main character, Anna-Mae, talks about her love for a popular fast-food chain (McDonald’s), however, while reading, I found the monologue to be more than just a passion for the nationwide restaurant chain. While it is true that the monologue initially appears to only be talking about McDonald’s, upon analyzing further there’s a clear deeper meaning within the speech. Jane Martin’s writing, as well as the envisioned delivery of the monologue by Anna-Mae’s character, uses vivid imagery and metaphors to capture a deeper meaning than the words themselves convey. When introducing the brand to readers and listeners, Anna Mae uses the word “rainbow” in discussing the famous double-arched logo McDonald’s is known for.
The poet Sandra Cisneros uses imagery to illustrate a joyful tone in the poem “Good Hotdogs.” For example, “We’d rum straight from school instead of home”(Cisneros 610). This conveys joy since the children are so excited to get a hotdog. Also this displays the children’s enthusiasm and happiness for the hotdogs.
Using this metaphor was a good strategy because while comparing the restaurant to body insides it enables the audience to feel the way the author does about the atmosphere. This quote also uses imagery in the sense of her saying “Picture a..” and it is effortless to imagine what she is trying to express about the restaurant. The
Literary devices are used by an author to enhance a story. These devices can help to make a piece more descriptive, complex and thrilling. Literary devices can also help the reader further understand the text. Conflict, characterization, and imagery are exemplary examples of literary devices used by authors. Conflict is one of the most essential literary devices.
The short and brief sentences give no description and only state the food she is prepared. The passage would be descriptive if the occurrence is more appalling. Passage two is much shorter in length than passage 1 due to the lack of explanation. The sentence structure of passage two reveals the underlying attitude of resentment, gratefulness, and
The author describes an image about the kitchen and the rest room. The author describes the kitchen with following quotes, “The kitchen is a cavern,” “The floor is slick with spills,” and “Sinks everywhere are clogged with scraps of lettuce, decomposing lemon wedges, water-logged toast crusts”. The effect of the imagery is to show the chaos of the kitchen, and to emphasize how bad the working environment is. Thus the audience can realize that how substandard and dirty the kitchen is, which beyonds audiences’ expectation due to the public impression that a kitchen should be the cleanest place due to its function of preparing and saving food. Later, the author continues to use imagery as describing the rest room.
In reality, two people might eat together for business or to go out on a date. If an author wanted to include either of these instances in his book, he would have to make the conversation or the resolution of the meal relevant to the story’s plot. The business lunch might conclude with a successful negotiation, and the dinner date might be the beginning or the end of a beautiful relationship. A meal scene that ends well, according to Foster, says, “I’m with you, I share this moment with you, I feel a bond of community with you” (Foster 11). On the other hand, a meal that ends in disaster might prove a character’s carelessness, depict an enemy’s cruelty, or begin a fight between characters.
Throughout the entire review, Anderson gave much evidence as to why he liked eating at the restaurant. In the beginning of the article he up-talks the elegant dining halls the restaurant has and explained that they had excellent servers. Near the end of the review, he began to talk about what made the food so
In the short story "Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush, she uses literary devices; such as imagery and tone to achieve her purpose of the story. Her purpose of the story is to highlight the disappointment out of an event that's expected to cause a good feelings at the end. She starts off by including imagery in the first paragraph to demonstrate the positive image. She states, "they sat on the banquette opposite us in a little narrow restaurant, having dinner. The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it; the woman was fadingly pretty, in a big hat," to place an image of how it looks, which is a positive image.
What would you if you knew a secret that changed everything? In The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander tells the story of the imprisonment and execution of Tsar Nicholas and his family. Leonka, now Misha, once the kitchen boy to the Romanovs, claims to be the last living witness to the family’s execution. Misha uses exposition, foreshadowing, and dramatic irony to create suspense as he retells the story of those final days of the Imperial Family.
Observation Assignment #1 For this observation I chose to study and observe the use of space in different interactions at a restaurant. The study of how we perceive and use space is called proxemics. Proxemics is studied because it can tell us a lot about people’s relationships and help us decode the messages that others send to each other (Guerrero, 2008, p.182). I went to a cafe for this observation and made sure I found a seat facing a lot of other tables.