“The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”; the essay’s title alone exposes Price’s overall flippant tone on the subject. Her persuasive piece unfolds the ridiculousness of American consumerism using the example of the flamingo’s rise in the 1950’s. Price aims her writing right at those consumers that continue to purchase unnecessary things. The second paragraph kicks off with an ironic statement, establishing Price’s first tone shift. With her first paragraph being an informative persona, the second paragraph shows her true feelings.
Antonia Peacocke uses short parts of from different authors to shape her argument, agreeing with some and pointing fun at others. She recognizes some of the steps taken due to the fact that the content of some of the jokes are not for younger ears. She ends her article explaining that although she feels that there is more to the jokes on Family Guy than the offensive crudity that people like to point out she still finds that people still need to realize that some jokes do go too far and take to heart "the distinction between a shamelessly candid but insightful joke and a merely shameless joke".
Amir Hassan Ap English 3/20/11 Amir Hassan Ap English 3/20/11 Pink Flamingos Jennifer Price is widely focused around the pink flamingo and American society with the bird. See how flamingos were native to Florida but were extinct in the late 1800’s by early Americans the flamingo was never forgotten and is bigger than ever. “Claims to boldness”; also Jennifer says had made this bird synonymous with wealth around the “vacationing Americans.” This colorful bird has given Americans a style of art as well. With the playful art deco style, and replete. Now is this Author really talking about “pink flamingos” or is she really saying something more?
In the hilarious essay "Shitty First Drafts," Anne Lamott defeats the myth of the beautiful first draft by explaining the sheer ugliness of the first draft. From the start, it is clear she is mindful of a prominently youthful, student-based audience. Lamott mixes her humor throughout the paper in little bits and pieces, which seemed to help convince the reader that everyone writes shitty first drafts. She writes it in a very informal tone, which really connects to the reader in this situation in a much better way than a formal tone would. Going along with this, she also 'lowers' herself and sees through the audiences perspective.
“The critic asks “is this believable?” The novelist, “how can I get them to believe this”? In short she argues that a good novelist always has some sort of conflict to tell and it must be suspenseful. “Something other than breakfast”. She uses witty humour to loosen the audience up. Atwood discusses the several genres of fiction that are available in this time and explains how this is not only a time of gender crossover but of genre crossover.
Aggressiveness, tyranny, the insane love of power made manifest, they reply. Destroy that and you will be free.” In this quotation, she is trying to interpret the emotions of other people during that time. The use of pathos in her writing really helped the readers to established a connection between her and the reader's emotion through this essay. Rhetorical questions played a huge role in her piece. Woolf included a lot of rhetorical
Wilson uses a satiric tone, exaggerated emotional appeal, and irony to create a very enjoyable discussion—or argument of differences. By definition, satire is a device used to shine light on a subject and attempt to create change. Wilson uses a satiric tone in these passages to do just that. The diction is heavy with political jargon. The language is full of slang and mockery.
Establishing Ethos in Writing An author can write with spectacular diction and elegant flow, but without establishing good ethos, that can dilute the rest of the message. In Sherman Alexie’s What You Pawn I Will Redeem, Lame Deer’s Talking to the Owls and Butterflies, and Benjamin Franklin’s Way to Wealth, their writings are focused on this exact idea. Whether it is through telling a story of a drunken Indian, attacking whites for what they have done to the world, or even giving advice on work ethic and gratuity, they all let their intelligence shine, make the reader feel sympathetic, and add some humor to lighten the mood. Each of the three authors portrays their intelligence in unique manner. At the end of Franklin’s essay he states, “I am, as ever, thine to
Many writers have influenced their surroundings and changed beliefs of people. Some have written the history and we are still paying the consequences of it wether what they wrote is true or invented. Women have been portrayed in many different ways throughout history; positive and negative. We learn that by reading various ancient and contemporary texts. If we would have stick to only one writer or source we would have only learn one side of the presented issue and taking into consideration our naive nature some would most likely believe that the author is right.
THE USE OF IRONY IN ACHEBE’S “GIRLS AT WAR” The literary element, irony is mostly used by authors to portray the modern age experience which is complex, multidimensional and contradictory. Irony comes in various forms and it connotes a sense of double meaning as well as contradiction. The rhetorical device of irony in literature is often far more effective than a direct and literal statement. The successful use of irony however depends on the audience’s role in not just counting the ironies but realizing the implications of the ironies used and its intention by the author. In Chinua Achebe’s short story “Girls At War”, he carefully exploits the central message of the story through his exquisite usage of irony.