He then describes rhetorical discourses through the words of others that have attempted to define it, and providing insight to what he feels they mean. Basically what it boils down to in the opening part is that these two men that defined rhetorical are both wrong and right, proving each other along the way. Grant decided he wanted to further develop the idea of rhetorical discourse. Exigence - a problem or need that can be dealt with a forum of communication. Proposed 3 questions to ask: “..what the discourse is about, why is it needed, and what it should accomplish.” (106).
Chapter 5, page 95 30. This question has three parts: First, what are the four stages in the creative process? Note: copy and paste only the direct answers, not the descriptive/explanatory paragraphs. What page(s) in the text did you find the answer on? The First Stage: Searching for Challenges The Second Stage: Expressing the Problem or Issue The Third Stage: Investigating the Problem or Issue The Fourth Stage: Producing Ideas Chapter 5, pages 103-104 Second, what are the six techniques you can use to help regain your curiosity?
Jennings use of foreshadowing helps readers unveil a deep understanding of Robin’s dark thoughts through literary techniques, “My high spirits dissolve like salt in water,” The use of red herrings throughout the novel help represent the use of significant and powerful themes through the use of the thriller conventions. Throughout this novel Paul Jennings use of short stories through the first person narration of Robin, reveals to readers the dark thoughts that continuously surface into Robins mind. Each story reflects upon the problems and obsessions that Robin is experiencing, showing the need to confront the darkness within him, before it completely dominates his mind. "I
“We had passed through the walls of piled bones”. (535). We are invited to delve into the inner workings of a sinister mind and only know what montresser tell us. “Come ““we will go back; your health is precious” (534). Because the story is in first person the
of [a] new kind of comic book ... a first phase of development, the transition of the superhero from fantasy to literature. "[44] He elaborates by noting that "Alan Moore's realism ... performs a kenosis towards comic book history ... [which] does not ennoble and empower his characters ... Rather, it sends a wave of disruption back through superhero history ... devalue[ing] one of the basic superhero conventions by placing his masked crime fighters in a realistic world". [45] First and foremost, "Moore's exploration of the [often sexual] motives for costumed crimefighting sheds a disturbing light on past superhero stories, and forces the reader to reevaluate—to revision—every superhero in terms of Moore's kenosis—his emptying out of the tradition. "[46] Klock relates the title to the quote by Juvenal to highlight the problem of controlling those who hold power and quoted repeatedly within the work itself. [47] The deconstructive nature of Watchmen is, Klock notes, played out on the page also as, "[l]ike Alan Moore's kenosis, [Veidt] must destroy, then reconstruct, in order to build 'a unity which would survive
As seen in Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth century text The Pardoner’s Tale, money has the power to destroy relationships and turn good into evil. Similarly, Sam Raimi’s twentieth century film A Simple Plan uses the same idea from Chaucer’s piece of writing and gives a modern day twist to the same notion of avarice which ultimately destroys
Perseus really commits to his adventure when he blackmails the Graeae into telling him how to find the Nymphai. At this point, he has entered the mythological world of strange creatures and gods. B. Initiation 1. Nymphai-Perseus' main test is finding out the location of the Nymphai. To do this, he has to trick and blackmail the Graeae, which he successfully does.Next, Perseus gains two important allies.
Any important document that The Party doesn’t agree with is to be put in the memory hole and is“…whirled away on a current of warm air into the enormous furnaces…” (38) This is one of the many methods the Party used to eliminate the past. The Ministry of Truth was also responsible for altering history to fit Big Brother’s ideals. 4. What is the importance of children being spies? [2] The children in the novel were born into the new era of the Party.
The desire for social progression has always shrouded society. Both Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) were produced duringeras of technological exploration. Through depicting technology breeching moral boundaries through context, characterisation and intertextuality, both Scott andShelley highlight the dangers of progression with the absence of ethical emotion – atimeless social issues which binds these two texts.Written during the industrial revolution and the emerging era of existentialism andexploration – Shelley’s Frankenstein can be interpreted as a warning to thetechnologically curious. This curious nature is personified throughout the protagonistVictor Frankenstein, who tragically falls victim to
One of Vonnegut's best techniques in his stories is using the future as a setting to demonstrate where our world is heading. Welcome to the Monkey House, Vonnegut's popular collection of short stories, contains two such stories. They warn of the dangers of a government with too much power and show how these powers can corrupt good men. The title story of Welcome to the Monkey House is set in a futuristic America with vast overpopulation. In an effort to solve the population problem, the government required that every citizen take pills that made them numb from the waist down, taking all pleasure out of sex.