Rhetorical Analysis Of Three Appeals To Prose

Three appeals to Prose’s ethos are that she begins her essay notifying us that she’s a mother with two children who are in high school, she’s a reporter, essayist, critic and editor, writing over twenty books and receiving numerous grants and awards, shows how much experience she has and knows what she’s talking about. She concludes by stating how many schools share the same teachings of literature. I believe that she starts off her essay with negative connotations is because it’s probably going to pull people in to see her different ideas. It also shows readers that she’s passionate about her topic. She doesn’t only talk negative in her essay because she starts to draw in positive connotations towards the end to balance out her responses with both sides. …show more content…
Several key assumptions about the role and impact of reading literary works in high school were how she explained how students only learn in their English room. She also states her opinion of how reading more complex and well-written literature would help students grow but when it is poorly written it causes lack of interest to reading. The appeals that she makes to logos are the sources and quotations to back up her topic. She assumes her audience knows most of the stories or has read at least some of them because if her audience doesn’t know any of the books then the argument would’ve just been a big confusion. She also gives a brief summary of the lesser known books to let her audience get the understanding of what the book is. It’s important that her audience is familiar with the books because no one be helping her fight for improvements in education. I haven’t read “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” but I agree because this quote explains Prose’s language throughout the piece as she wants to analyze the book to see if it is