The text above was chosen because it spoke to the message I wanted to impose on my audience. Henry David Thoreau, argues that men should be free from government; I argue that one’s neighborhood heavily impacts the person they become; but we both argue with passion and a confident tone, making us very similar in our approach to argumentative writing. In Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, this passage most encourages me to understand his argument, not because I agree with it, but because it most evokes logos and pathos. Each of these, I would like to evoke within my argument to create passionate, and logical arguments. Thus I speak passionately, to impose with in my writing that I genuinely care about what I write; and I speak confidently to instill a sense of credibility and certainty in my
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I write to instill change within the disproportionate childhood realities, and to make people aware of their surroundings and how it affects them; Thoreau argues to change the government system put in place. Thoreau and I write a similar manner, seeing as our audiences, purposes, and tone paralleled one another; thus, he was an easily distinguishable choice for my Pastiche.
In order to create a persuasive argument, I included rhetorical strategies in my writing; and in order to emulate Thoreau, I wrote using most of the rhetorical strategies he displayed: personification, rhetorical questioning, comparison using metaphors or similes, and definitive diction. I write with personification when in the first sentence when I ask if the answer neighborhoods, “... shape and form us entirely...”; this mirrors Thoreau's argument where in the first sentence, he too, questions we “shall be content” in obeying the government. My use of personification suggests that a neighborhood is a living, breathing thing able to shape and mold a person; essentially, the point being made is that one’s neighborhoods directly correlate with the person they are today and the use of
I write to instill change within the disproportionate childhood realities, and to make people aware of their surroundings and how it affects them; Thoreau argues to change the government system put in place. Thoreau and I write a similar manner, seeing as our audiences, purposes, and tone paralleled one another; thus, he was an easily distinguishable choice for my Pastiche.
In order to create a persuasive argument, I included rhetorical strategies in my writing; and in order to emulate Thoreau, I wrote using most of the rhetorical strategies he displayed: personification, rhetorical questioning, comparison using metaphors or similes, and definitive diction. I write with personification when in the first sentence when I ask if the answer neighborhoods, “... shape and form us entirely...”; this mirrors Thoreau's argument where in the first sentence, he too, questions we “shall be content” in obeying the government. My use of personification suggests that a neighborhood is a living, breathing thing able to shape and mold a person; essentially, the point being made is that one’s neighborhoods directly correlate with the person they are today and the use of