Writing Style/Technique Essay

At the Golden Globes award ceremony Oprah Winfrey was presented the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.Given recent events like the Me too and Time’s up movements Oprah dedicated her speech to speaking up about sexual harassment and emphasizing the need for change.Throughout the speech she talks about many different things from personal stories to the plights of everyday women to show that this abuse affects everyone. She uses many important rhetorical devices, namely pathos, syntax…

This speech had an exceptional flow that was caused by the amazing style that MLK used. MLK used various types of rhetorical devices, such as metaphors which he used nearly twenty times, anaphora which he used eight times, and many other rhetorical devices like parallel structure, doublets and triplets, and antithesis. These rhetorical devices made MLK’s speech one of the best speeches in our history, and created in it a style which…

Any effective argument is guaranteed to have some form of rhetoric in order to push the persuasive agenda of the author. One such example of this is in Brutus’ speech after Julius Caesar’s death when he expressed his thoughts toward Caesar, but in doing so induced slight logical fallacies. However, he continued to effectively use rhetoric to persuade the people that Julius’ death was for the good of Rome. Brutus’ claim is that he killed Julius Caesar for the good of Rome. He stresses this point…

Even a century long time after his death, Wilfred Owen is still famous for his war poetry written during World War 1. In his poem, Owen uses various language techniques to vividly illustrate the horrendous reality of the war. Hence, he communicates his own anti-war feelings implied beneath his techniques. However, although he is now known as an anti-war poet, for once, he had been a naive boy, who had volunteered to fight in war. At first, he was thrilled to fight for one’s country. But soon,…

easily. After Brutus speaks, Mark Antony, Caesar’s good friend and second in command, gives a speech about Caesar and how he did not deserve to die, easily turning the crowd against Brutus and the other conspirators. Both speeches use persuasive techniques, like ethos, and rhetorical devices, like repetition and rhetorical questions, to manipulate their audiences…

The Fate of Tessie Hutchinson The term lottery creates a vision of winning something of value. In the short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, Jackson took the meaning of the lottery and put a dark twist to it. Jackson gives an everyday feel to the story as if the annual ceremony “the lottery” is a peaceful day for the towns people. The reader infers that this is a positive outcome based on society’s understanding of what a lottery is; however, the lottery takes an unforeseen twist that…

The definition of suspense is, “a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty of what might happen.” At least that is what dictionary.com refers to it as. Also, in both the stories “Lamb to the slaughter,” and “The Lottery,” mood plays an important role in the story. Through the mood, we get the main idea of the scenario or what the author is trying to make out of this scenario. Throughout the story reader can learn that both these stories have mood built up especially in specific…

Interrogations are a crucial part of every investigation. The main objective of an interrogation is to get a presumably guilty suspect out of denial and to admission (Kassin, Leo, Meissner, Richman & Colwell, 2007). With this goal, interrogation techniques are designed to break down a suspect’s resistance and elicit a confession. There are a number of manuals for interrogations that are used, but generally interrogations can be broken down into a two-step process. The investigator first seeks to…

Advertisements in modern media strive towards not only selling a product, but making it emotionally appealing to the audience as a means to attach the product with desire. This longstanding tactic has been used by big companies, like Apple, to sell medicore products. Advertisement directors have taken notice that smartphones have created this utopia effect on millennials - creating a bubble of comfort in a portal metal box that tells them whatever they want, whenever they want. It creates a cave…

The first was the mind-to-muscle relaxation technique: Meditation. I’ve tried this in the past for a few months and I did not like to do this with other people around. I found it hard to concentrate on my breathing while hearing other people’s meditation cues. So I thought I’d give it another try. When…