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Rhetorical Analysis Of Sex Lies And Conversation

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Sex, Lies and Conversations What is the importance of communication? Communication is an important life skill that helps to understand and connect with people by allowing to build respect and trust, it can resolve differences in the environment. In Deborah Tannen’s essay “Sex, Lies and Conversations” highlights the different styles of communications of man and woman. Tannen opens her essay with an anecdote that grabs the reader attention with her own personal experiences. Tannen discusses how men and women contact with each other, and how different the ways of communications for opposite sexes are, and how this can lead to a breakable marriage. As she quotes “Bonds between boys can be …show more content…

When Tannen is talking about relationships and communication, Tannen describes that “For women, as for girls, intimacy is that fabric of relationships, and talk is the thread from which it is woven.” This statement is powerful because the simile of “intimacy and fabric” as well as “talk and thread” to demonstrates and supports the point she is trying to make. Her figurative language makes these comparisons and help the reader to recreate and trigger familiar emotion so the audience can connect with her essay. The next figurative language technique that Tannen used is onomatopoeia. On page 265, she uses the words “mhm,” and “uhuh” to describe the sound women make when engaged in a conversation with a girlfriend. This specific strategy creates a direct connection of the word in the brain engaging the reader to link with the essay. As Tannen continues with persuasion of the difference of a men and a woman communication, the figurative language she uses reassures the reader of what is the main point of Tannen’s essay. Using figurative language Tannen makes Parallel differences as she states “A parallel difference can cause a man to complain about his wife” (265). Tannen Also uses Figurative langue to come across her points, but at the same time be fairly compassionate and nonjudgmental in her depiction of the sexes she uses her personal opinions. It is easy to condemn the husband in the examples like “Men who expect silent attention interpret a stream of listener-noise as overreaction or impatience” (265), as a heartless boor, but she does not, rather she suggests that he is merely unconscious about his conversation patterns, a common to the

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