Skyllar Jekel English 102 Prof. Burnham Jan. 26th, 2023 Rhetorical Analysis Essay Have regular advertisements left you uninterested and waiting for the end to come? Well, Phil Swift in the Flex Tape advertisement uses many exciting situations, even while putting himself at risk. By showing his viewers such heavily damaged areas get fixed with such a fast and easy solution, it makes him seem very confident in his own product and makes it more impressive and convincing to purchase. Keeping the audience engaged and showing how reliable his product is with a touch of logos and pathos adds to the success of this advertisement. Phil Swift first starts off by demonstrating the sheer power of Flex Tape by stopping a huge hole of flowing water with
1. By the title i thought they were trying to figure out how was it that a machine won the warm but then i was like how can just the machine win without any human. 2. The genre of the novel is science fiction.
“He did not smoke, and of course he did not drink; indeed, he had never tasted spirits, and was inclined to avoid people who had—a circumstance that did not shrink his social circle as much as might be supposed, for the center of that circle was supplied by the members of Garden City's First Methodist Church,a congregation totaling seventeen hundred ,most of whom were as abstemious as Mr. Clutter could desire.’’ (10) ( Culture and Community ) Capote used this quote to illustrate the culture of the village of Holcomb, where Mr.Clutter lived and how the social life of a religious family is rooted in their church. This quote represents culture, because is trying to tell us that people in Holcomb should live a life according to their religion ,because their actions affect their social circle and their community.
“Blank Space” Rhetorical Analysis Essay The popular electropop song “Blank Space”, by singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, won many awards including: MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video, MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video, American Music Award for Song of the Year, and iHeartRadio Music Award for Best Lyrics. However, this is not a surprise after all Taylor Swift is the youngest song writer ever signed by Sony/ATV Music Publishing house (A&E Networks Television). Just like other Taylor Swift videos “Blank Space” uses a lot of symbolism and figurative language, however, this time she incorporated satire and parallelism. She used these rhetorical devices in order to convey two messages to her young audience: unlike other music videos
‘Bad Blood’ by Taylor Swift After watching Taylor Swift’s Blank Space video on Youtube for the sixth time, I was left with the impression that no other music video could top it as I found it to be a masterpiece. However, after watching Swift’s latest music video for her new single Bad Blood, it reaffirmed to me that I was, unfortunately, correct - which is surprising since Blank Space and Bad Blood were both directed by Joseph Kahn. Though Bad Blood is by no means a terrible promotional video, but it certainly lacks the same charm and wickedness that Blank Space brought. I’m not a huge Taylor Swift fan - or ‘Swifty’ as she likes to call her followers -, but what I am a fan of is pop culture. And the weeks leading up to the release of Swift’s new music video, every social media platform was buzzing with excitement.
Twelve Angry Men is in many ways a love letter to the American legal justice system. We find here eleven men, swayed to conclusions by prejudices, past experience, and short-sightedness, challenged by one man who holds himself and his peers to a higher standard of justice, demanding that this marginalized member of society be given his due process. We see the jurors struggle between the two, seemingly conflicting, purposes of a jury, to punish the guilty and to protect the innocent. It proves, however, that the logic of the American trial-by-jury system does work.
There are emotional statements throughout the song that are primed to allow the audience to empathize with Swift and feel her frustration with the system she's arguing against. "I'm so sick of running as fast as | can/ Wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man/ And I'm so sick of them coming at me again/ Cause if I was a man/
Taylor Swift presents a new commercial diet "Coca-Cola" and draws the attention of the audience with memorable music and bright colors. During the announcement, we witnessed Swift in the process of writing lyrics for her hit song "22". A variety of people singing her song. When we think about Taylor Swift, we think of a young, cheerful singer who mostly attracts teenagers or young people. Nevertheless, in this commercial of diet coke, attention is focused on people of all age groups, all races, all genders and all class groups.
Rhetorical Analysis Essay: A Modest Proposal Dr. Jonathan Swift places himself as a villain who is willing to do evil deeds to answer hard questions. What pushes Swift to write the essay “A Modest Proposal” is Ireland's economic and social problems. In this satirical essay Swift highlights the problems in Ireland and gives a sarcastic solution to make people feel guilt. Swift’s use of dehumanizing language is used to make the reader oppose Swift’s modest proposal.
Josh Eels personal profile of Taylor Swift in Rolling Stone Magazine, sets about to provide readers with the process Swift has undertaken to complete her new album, 1989. Eell heavily uses imagery throughout the article, to allow the reader to feel as if they are actually sitting in and listening to what Swift has to say. Eell begins his article with a quote from Swift, describing a story of a man who Swift’s brother had seen earlier in the week with a cat on his head. Eell uses the story to mirror Swifts life; as Eell quotes that “being famous is a lot like walking around with a cat on your head.” This anecdote marries with Swifts initial story and allows readers to understand the sort of attention that Swift is subjected to daily.
In Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels, Swift synthesizes a compelling dissertation that there are many things wrong with the travels Gulliver endures. Swift also describes a world of political and social stupidity in a way that signified the world he lived in, and a world we still seem to live in today. The book Gulliver’s Travels was most popular among politicians, scientists, philosophers, and Englishmen in general.
This song shows a young girl who is portrayed as having a dorky nerdy look. Also, it shows a girl that is opposite of her, who is a pretty brunette known by the highschool kids. The “nerdy” girl is in love with a football player, who she believes will never have a chance with, because he is with another girl. “Taylor swift” has a crush on a boy who is blind to see that she really loved her and not the girl he is with who is portrayed as a “popular” Brunette. This is an important aspect to Taylor Swift because she is known to sing love stories that she hears about or experience herself.
An example of this, in our music video, is at the beginning of the video in which the tune/beat is slow and creates a sense a being isolated and heartbroken, this is in which we see the actor, in an extreme close-up of the face, crying; instantly makes the audience realize that something heartbreaking has happened. Another example of this is when the female actor walks away from her lover when the lyrics states “look me in the eye”, this contradicts the lyrics and makes the audience feel a sense of loss. Andrew Goodwin also believed that the main artist should be the centre of attention by appearing the most in the video. An example of this would be the master shot of the actor in the park; this is seen the most in the whole video.
The music video conveys a very deep meaning that is culturally relevant and is something many people struggle with everyday. Hozier utilizes imagery, symbolism and rhetorical strategies as an attempt to expose the
Along with the lyrics, it shows that she might finally get her moment to show him that they belong together. Then Swift finds him at the dance and she shows him her paper that says “I love you” and he shows you his paper that says it too. The entire music video leads up to that point. This is one example of a rhetorical analysis on a music video, but every music video could be analyzed this way.
