Rhetorical Analysis Of When The Officer Caught Me

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Rhetorical Analysis In the poem When the officer caught me the author Nate Marshall talks about an experience from childhood. This spoken word poem uses a mix of ethos, logos and pathos. This author of this poem touches the audience with his methods of pathos but first grabs their attention with the logic he uses by starting off with a quote. The poem When the officer caught me draws the audience in because it consist of this personal story that happened to him at only age thirteen. Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. Not only has Nate wrote the poem, “ When the Officer Caught Me”, he has wrote many other poems and books including his first book, “Wild Hundreds “, which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize And is forthcoming