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King of the Hill, movie reviews, Thoreau in a jail cell, music videos and considering your audience....
What does all of this have to do with rhetoric, and furthermore, what does it mean to YOU?
Don't respond with the answer you think I want. What do you want to say?
I think all these topics have to do with Rhetoric because they force a feeling on you such as Thoreau in a Jail cell want you to feel guilty about not doing what is right and music videos want you to feel like the author of the song does when writing the song. Considering the audience forces me to change my argument to where it will affect the audience the most and causes them to make the most radical change in their life for the better. All the things that we have argued in class about have force me to think deeper about what all the things around me in the world are trying to tell me. Commercials appealing to my sense of emotions forcing me to act a certain way or buy a product, posters appealing to pathos by using statistics trying to get me to give to a certain fund, etc. All these things we discussed made me more aware of how much rhetoric is around me when before I would never have thought that a commercial about a dog is forcing me to act by bringing in an animal.
ReplyDeleteI think all of these things have to do with rhetoric because rhetoric acts as a means for conveying a message. When considering your audience, you have to use specific rhetoric depending on who the audience is. Thoreau had to use appropriate rhetoric when defending the idea that had him locked up inside the jail cell. I think that improving and using rhetoric is essential to make positive change in a world that is so divided. Without the art of effective communication, our country and planet are condemned to a future of more conflict and oppression.
ReplyDeleteKing of the Hill, movie reviews, Thoreau in a jail cell and music videos are all examples of how the author is trying to connect with their audience and tell them what they truly think. This is accomplished by using rhetoric strategies such as logos, pathos, and ethos to further strengthen their argument. All of these works can be analyzed with the rhetoric strategies in mind to point out faults or strengths. There were many strengths in Thoreau in the jail cell and a major fault of ethos in the Stephan King movie review. The important point is that all of these works can be broken down to show who the author is, who the audience is, what the argument is and what the various rhetorical elements are, which can all determine how effectively the message is being delivered.
ReplyDeleteKing of the Hill, movie reviews, Thoreau in a jail cell, music videos are all forms of rhetoric because of how each one tries to deliver yet persuade a message they want to audience to learn. Each form listed above has an author who wants his audience to view the world, or a specific aspect in the way that they see it. Like Thoreau in the jail cell wants his audience to question there actions outside of jail. Make them think Is what am doing out here morally right? Music videos as well as like art in the King of the Hill, the producer wants his/her views to look at life in their prospective. Or listen to a story of someone else who've viewed like differently than the listener. All of these forms are just different aspects of life.And by making it appealing to an specific audience the writer/producer/author can inform and persuade their particular audience to think they way they do. Which is all what rhetoric is , the art of persuading a specific message to an audience.
ReplyDeleteThe link between all of these is that they are all a form of rhetoric because they all try to persuade their audience. They make a connection to their audience and tells them what to truly think. When choosing the type of rhetoric, you must consider your audience and see what will get through to them. The way Thoreau calls out to question the audience's actions for being out of the prison doing nothing. It questioned their morality which is what the people needed to hear. We need rhetoric so that way we can keep evolving as people. Even though we still need to improve our rhetoric moving forward. Continuing the conversation will help us grow into the people that we need to be to help make the world a better place.
ReplyDeleteThe movie reviews, tv episodes, Thoreau in a jail cells, and others are all forms of expressions by the authors. Yes, they aim for popularity and views but the reason these pieces of work are created is to express an argument or position that the author badly wants to put out. They use rhetoric to persuade others to agree with them through upvotes, laughter, causing introspection, or respect. All these things affect me because I can relate to the authors better through their work instead of them just writing something that comes from a newspaper article or speech. It's easier to attach myself with the author and their argument if the author uses humor, music, or emotional works to relate or inspire me.
ReplyDeleteThe way that all of that is connected because it all makes me think of the message and the persuasion, even though all those things are rhetoric they make me think in different ways about their message and how it is portrayed. In King of the Hill, I have never watched it but even though it is an animated series on TV and is comedic it has a message behind it and how it is portrayed. The movie reviews they persuade us to either watch or not watch the movie we are reading about. The Thoreau in a jail cell when the person ask the other why it's inside the cell and the other responding why the other person is outside, makes me think how the jailed person did something about a change they want and took actions against something unfair but the other person is not taking any actions, and also in music videos, all of the songs the professor shows us are with a message behind them and how we discuss it and see how that is also rhetoric. I believe that there is rhetoric everywhere and how for some things it can be different and the source it uses to try to persuade.
ReplyDeleteAll of these examples just prove how much rhetoric is used in everyday life and how important it is. Everything has reason behind it, and the creators of all of these examples want the reader to come to conclusions about what happened. People should be able to get their message across in the way that they want to without bias or sway in the message. Different audiences have preset ideas that they want to hear in any kind of information given to them, so sometimes an author must cater to certain groups of people.
ReplyDeleteAll these examples cause people to be moved in some way, whether emotionally or physically. Rhetorically, King of the Hill has a humorous emotional movement, while Thoreau is almost a call to action asking, "What are you doing out there?" Music videos can go either way; they can literally tell you to do something (You've got to fight for your right to party), or they can just bring you to an emotion (Ballad of Lou the Welterweight). In the end, the purpose of rhetoric is to cause one to act or think a certain way. It requires diligent attention and awareness to have the effective tailor-made rhetoric necessary to move people.
ReplyDeleteKing of the Hill, movie reviews, Thoreau in a jail cell, music videos and considering your audience. Each of these examples is a situation in which people's perception is changed by displaying a message. Rhetoric is all about not just the message but how it is portrayed. The message can be changed and manipulated just based of the context it is displayed in. All this teaches us to be aware of rhetoric and carefully craft our own rhetoric in order to be a more productive member of any conversation on a micro or macro level.
ReplyDeleteThese are all good examples of the rhetoric because they all have a certain intention to persuade their audience to think a certain way. Whether it is a tv show or an album review, both authors are creating a piece with the intent to alter the thinking of their audience. The rhetoric can be displayed in many different ways. The media in which the rhetoric is portrayed can come in ways such as digitally, orally, and physically (on paper). In my life, much of the rhetoric I pay attention to is digitally, in music or tv. I hear many advertisements that have an intent to persuade me to act a certain way over the radio or tv as commercials.
ReplyDeleteAll of these things involve rhetoric because one, everything has rhetoric (duh), and second, they are pushing a persuasive message at their audiences. KOTH has an underlying message in every single episode usually political or addressing social issues. Movie reviews are opinions and opinions involve someone trying to convince you that their opinion is correct and accurate. Thoreau's "No, what are you doing out there?" begs the question of what you are doing with your life. This persuades one to question moral and belief.
ReplyDeleteThe three things listed have to do with the rhetorical situation because their is a message that is being projected to an audience. The person is an impression that is always trying to consciously and unconsciously trying to influence others around him. Rhetoric really is a natural process, in my opinion, that a person cannot control because man is always trying to satisfy his hierarchical needs and in doing so, he has to communicate and convince, and that is rhetoric. King of the Hill, Thoreau, movie reviews and music videos are by extension, man trying to satisfy something as a need or want, even if it is said that the content was made for an altruistic purpose. That is rhetoric to me.
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