When Oppression Is The Status Quo Figurative Language

Charlie Guin
Perrine
English 9 IB 4
22 February 2023
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Bree Newsome’s article titled “When Oppression Is the Status Quo, Disruption Is a Moral
Duty”.In the article Newsome talks about, anger boiling over, history, and issues with the police force. In the article, Newsome uses figurative language and rhetorical devices to help her argument. The author uses pathos in the article. The text states, “The anger that had been rising within me during my visit finally boiled over”. This quote is pathos because it uses emotions such as anger. This quote is also a metaphor. the author uses pathos successfully again because in the text the author states that “how much longer must we wait for justice?”. This quote is pathos because it makes the reader

This quote is pathos because it makes the reader feel shocked and changed. This quote is a metaphor. Omit the author is successful in pathos because he draws the reader in by using metaphors and emotions which then help the reader in his argument. The author uses logos in the article. the text states, “On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18­ year­old, unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer named Darren
Wilson.” This quote is logos because it gives pure information. Also, this quote has no emotion or figurative language in it. the author uses logos again because the text states “In June 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.,
Charlie Guin
Perrine
English 9 IB 4
22 February 2023
Guin 2 and massacred a local civil rights leader and eight parishioners during bible study”. This quote

This word is pathos because the word makes you feel uncomfortable. This word is diction because the word “harassed” has a deep meaning behind it, the word makes you feel uncomfortable, vulnerable, and uneasy. Omit the author uses diction because of words such as “praise, protest, and harassed”. This proves that the author uses diction to help his argument.
In summary, Newsome uses emotion and rhetorical devices to pull the reader in. She also uses figurative language to help her argument sound factual and effective. The author demonstrates this because the author states, “The anger that had been rising within me during my visit finally boiled over”. The author also uses logos in the article because the text states that “On
Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18­year­old, unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer named Darren Wilson.” The author uses figurative language in this article because in the text it states “The political establishment cannot praise the king with one breath while condemning civil disobedience in the next breath”. And finally, the author uses diction in the article, because in the text the author uses the word “praise”.
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