Analogy

Erica has a rough day. She spills coffee on the keyboard, steps on chewing gun, gets a parking ticket, and she also get a mail because of forgetting to pay credit card bill while she is boxing. The good thing is that she is using the Citi Bank Simplicity card. It also says it is the only card that users don’t need to pay annual fee, late fee, and penalty rate. The intended audiences for this advertisement are people who might have same problems as Erica. By giving these new services, the…

Mind’, authors Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers put forth the notion of “extended cognition”, which is the idea that the process of acquiring knowledge can extend outside of one’s own physical body. At the center of Clark and Chalmers argument is an analogy between two different individuals, Inga and Otto. Inga’s cognitive process takes place inside of her brain. Otto’s cognitive process includes phenomena external to his physical body. Specifically, it includes a notebook. Clark and Chalmers…

to showcase how certain parts of the right to happiness could be considered immoral and how people view them as righteous. The main strategies he features are the appeal to common values, with his story of Mr. and Mrs. A, and his multiple uses of analogies. Lewis begins his article with pathos by using the appeal to common values, and sharing a story of a man, Mr. A, divorcing his wife, Mrs. A, to remarry another woman, Mrs. B. Lewis states that not only had Mr. A left his wife, but that Mrs. B…

based on his communication with them through telephone, Christmas lights, and radio. Intrigued, and wanting to save their friend, the boys consult their science teacher and mentor, Mr. Clarke. According to him and his acrobat and flea paper plate analogy, “Well,…

This article “What Do Non-Binary People Want?" By Elliott Jensen is over how non-binary people have no real identification in society. In the beginning Elliott uses an analogy to provide an example of how it may feel to a person of one gender to be the only one in a crowd of the opposite. “Imagine, for a moment, that you’re the only man or woman in a sea of women or men. All day, every day, you interact with people of a different gender from yourself. Additionally, this other gender has filled…

image showing the University of Michigan and Michigan State University rivalry. This rivalry is very well understood by residents of Michigan as being a very polarizing argument. With the text of “In constant conflict” the audience will infer an analogy with the conflict between practical and liberal arts. The third slide contains an image of a word search and sudoku. The trivium is the art of words, and the quadrivium was the art of numbers, therefore the word game and the number game show…

Things in Small Pieces,” William Wissemann address the problems he had with reading and writing due to him being dyslexic. If ENGL 1301 students were to study the essay, they would see Wissemann using rhetorical devices like anecdote, thesis, and analogy. Wissemann’s short essay starts off with an anecdote that is carried on throughout the essay. The author notifies the reader that he can solve the Rubik cube and the amount of attention he gets from his talent. As a result, he is…

political piece, “Ain’t I a Woman?”, Truth claims that women should enjoy all of the rights that men do and states that women are strong individuals and with unification can turn the society around for the better of women. The author uses repetition, analogy, and pathos as she shares from her personal experience. First of all, Truth uses repetition to advance her claim. She uses this through her argument to cause an engraving thought in the minds of those around her. Truth…

He argues that the analogy between the universe and human creations, such as machines is weak, since the universe is not really as obviously similar to a machine as the argument claims. The arrangement, composition, and workings of the universe are extremely different from…

Without the analogy between human inventions and the material universe, the design argument falls apart. Philo first argues that analogies themselves are prone to weakness. It may follow from the knowledge that blood circulates in one human that it would circulate in another, but it follows much less that blood would circulate in a fish or a frog. Likewise, the assumption that a house has an architect does not necessarily imply that a rock formation does. Philo admits that analogies are of…