Rhetorical Analysis
I choose the barn as my “place” for my point of view essay assignment. It seemed the most ideal location for this particular task because I am in the barn at least twice a day. The barn is where I keep my nanny dairy goat doe and I must milk and feed her regularly. Moreover, I have been keeping this routine for several years now, so I am familiar with its surroundings. Depending on the weather and mood you are in the barn can be either the most wonderful or disagreeable place to be.
Meaning selection: You can see the impact that the first sentence holds on one's thoughts, consider the first sentence of my positive essay when I say “Spring’s voluptuous characteristics …show more content…
Accordingly, I did my best to choose words that would help my reader connect with what I was: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and even tasting. The challenging part was to describe my positive and negative aspects without changing the overall facts. Notice “cool ” and “cold”, it is not changing the evidence but the second gives one a chilly feeling while the first is exhilarating. Or when I am describing the mists consider when I used the word “refreshing” to “dank ”. Omission of details: I left out the smell of the goats so that in the negative view I could say “smelly goats”, if I had used “clean fresh scented goats”in the positive portion and “smelly goats” in the negative that would have been changing the overall facts. Likewise, when writing about the creek I did not mention the cleanliness of the water, if I had said “the crystal clear creek” then when writing the negative view I would not have been able to say “filthy creek” Therefore it is important to keep in mind the option of omitting details. Figurative language: This is another useful tool when it comes to writing. It can help explain something that a reader would otherwise not understand. I used a hyperbole in my
I choose the barn as my “place” for my point of view essay assignment. It seemed the most ideal location for this particular task because I am in the barn at least twice a day. The barn is where I keep my nanny dairy goat doe and I must milk and feed her regularly. Moreover, I have been keeping this routine for several years now, so I am familiar with its surroundings. Depending on the weather and mood you are in the barn can be either the most wonderful or disagreeable place to be.
Meaning selection: You can see the impact that the first sentence holds on one's thoughts, consider the first sentence of my positive essay when I say “Spring’s voluptuous characteristics …show more content…
Accordingly, I did my best to choose words that would help my reader connect with what I was: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and even tasting. The challenging part was to describe my positive and negative aspects without changing the overall facts. Notice “cool ” and “cold”, it is not changing the evidence but the second gives one a chilly feeling while the first is exhilarating. Or when I am describing the mists consider when I used the word “refreshing” to “dank ”. Omission of details: I left out the smell of the goats so that in the negative view I could say “smelly goats”, if I had used “clean fresh scented goats”in the positive portion and “smelly goats” in the negative that would have been changing the overall facts. Likewise, when writing about the creek I did not mention the cleanliness of the water, if I had said “the crystal clear creek” then when writing the negative view I would not have been able to say “filthy creek” Therefore it is important to keep in mind the option of omitting details. Figurative language: This is another useful tool when it comes to writing. It can help explain something that a reader would otherwise not understand. I used a hyperbole in my