Rhetorical Analysis Of Rikita Tyson's Essay

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Tyson uses logos to create an effective argument. Logos is convincing an audience through the uses of logic and reason. When talking about teachers setting their students up to believe that Shakespeare is hard to comprehend on their own she asks logical questions such as: “why wouldn’t you reach for a translation the first time you hit a line you didn’t understand? Why wouldn’t you buy one for your son or daughter when he or she is starting a Shakespeare unit at school?”(Tyson). It is reasonable to believe that No Fear Shakespeare is needed if teachers drill in students heads that Shakespeare is near impossible to understand without it. When explaining translations, Rikita Tyson states“translations often don’t work. At times they’re just inaccurate,

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