Rhetorical Analysis Of American Writer And Musician By James Mcbride

American Writer and Musician, James McBride has written multiple books and has voiced his opinions in magazines as well as newspapers. In this particular essay, which appeared in National Geographic in 2007, he talks about how hip-hop has influenced the world and how he realized that he has missed an important part of his life. There are many rhetorics used in this essay, -“Irony, Metaphors, Hyperbole and Allusions.”- are some of the more notable ones. While talking about his biggest nightmare, a feeling of disjoint comes into his mind, “It is no longer…hip-hop planet.” (First paragraph), in this particular sentence, he uses irony. He expresses how he feels about hip-hop and how it is so vastly different from what he’s used to. By using irony

In this statement, he uses hyperbole. Hyperbole is used when a speaker wants to exaggerate statements or claims which are not meant to be taken literally, He does so in order to express his helplessness to the audience and to show or tell them that things are different than they used to be. There’s also a use of allusion, “The Bronx… surrounding areas.” (Burning Man, paragraph 3), in the entire passage of Burning man, there’s very figurative language and James used the allusion to bad off the entire passage of it. In this passage, he also talks more about the history of Black culture and hip-hop allowing him to build some credibility which in turn provides some information to the reader and/or audience. James uses metaphors a lot of times, metaphors are used to make items seem symbolic, more so done when it’s used to make them abstract. There is one particular James uses to build on more credibility, “What attracts white…explicit lyrics.” (The Crossover, paragraph 3), while this is stating facts, there’s also an opinion present when concerning that statement. This causes a divide in the entirety of cultures and James is aware of that which also allows him to build more