Rhetorical Analysis of a TED Talk:
Emma Marris: Nature Is Everywhere, We Just Need to Learn to See It
Emma Marris address the idea about how people view nature and what they consider to be nature. Marris claims that the problem with how people view nature starts with the general definition of nature. Marris argues that the definition is too strict and limited. She declares that nature is everywhere, but people lack the ability to see it: If nature stayed true to the definition there would be none and there would be a negative effect on the following generations. Emma Marris is an environmental science writer whom earned her master’s degree in science writing at John Hopkins University . Marris speech “ Nature Is Everywhere, We Just Need
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In order for here to deliver her message to the best of her ability, her dominant organizational pattern problem- solution because she gives the problem, which is that nature's definition is too strict.The secondary organizational pattern advantages- disadvantages because she states the old claim presented by Bill McKibben, which was that nature is no longer because it has been altered by humans. She also uses many rhetorical devices.The speaker uses irony, express something which is contrary to the intended meaning, when she describes how it takes a lot of maintenance to make national parks look untouched.Use of rhetorical question when asking the audience what counts as nature, so the audience can really think about her concept.She uses a paradox when she claims that an empty overgrown lot is more wild than a national park because national parks are constantly maintained. There are no tropes,figure of speech, used in her speech. She uses a scheme when she uses a anaphora. She uses anaphora, which is a reputation of a phase at the beginning of successive phase, when she describes where nature is located by repeating anywhere