Day 9 (Thursday, July 21)

Full agenda here

Homework Due Before Class

Read:

  1. “Glittering Generalities”
  2. “Climax, Parallelism, and Chiasmus”

Write/do:

  1. Romance, Gender, and Sex Appeal examples/analysis
  2. First/partial draft

Agenda-at-a-Glance

  • Rhetorical Devices Presentation (Alvin)
  • Independent work time
  • Peer review time

PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM

Peer Review Preferences (Final Paper)

Peer Review Preferences. No matter which option you choose, you will be expected to give feedback to peers. If you choose instructor feedback only, you will be given two anonymous drafts to give feedback on.(Required)

Homework Due Before Monday’s Class

  • Continue working on your paper
  • If you didn’t already write an outline, write an outline
  • Read “How To Teach a Child to Argue”
  • Read “Parenthesis and Enumeratio”
  • Do your examples + analysis for Glittering Generalities, Climax, and Parallelism/Chiasmus

2 thoughts on “Day 9 (Thursday, July 21)”

  1. Ashlynn C

    Parallelism-> I like to paint, race, and watch Netflix. The verbs here are in the same form, and using this device creates a sense of rhythm and flow in the text. It essentially makes the sentence easier to read and process.
    Another example is for my birthday I want to go go-kart racing, pumpkin picking, and horseback riding. Again here all the verbs are in the same form ending with ing, and there is a flow to the repetition of different activities. This gives the reader a sense of order and structure, pointing out the things I’d like to do.

    Climax: “I came, I saw, I conquered” is both parallelism and climax. It’s parallelism because the verbs are the same form, they start with I, and there is an order to the sentence that represents a structured flow. This is an example of climax because it builds excitement, giving the reader a feeling of embrace and satisfaction. The words became more powerful as the sentence went on.
    2). Another example I hear all the time is “When it rains it pours.” The sentence got stronger as it went from rain to pour, obviously pouring has a more serious connotation than raining. Building this sense of importance keeps the readers attention and interest which is why it is used.

    Glittering Generalization: Coke has another phrase “Things go better with Coke”. This will draw attention with the positive, reassuring feeling it gives that once you have a Coke things will be better. The words sound great which is why they are advertised, intended to invoke positive emotions in the consumer.
    2). “Gatorade Always Wins”. This is a beverage that is mostly consumed by athletes and people who extensively put their bodies in motion, perhaps needing electrolytes. Athletes are competitive so giving off the idea that gatorade ALWAYS wins is especially appealing to them, drawing their attention and pockets to the product.

  2. Arianny Burgos (she/her)

    Glittering generalities: Is an emotional appealing “feel good word”
    EX #1: “Im loving it” – McDonald’s
    EX #2: “Just do it” – Nike

    Climax: Most important point of something
    Ex: “Andrea’s parents want to move to Florida. They call Andrea to talk with them about their decision…
    EX #2: In the movie ‘Three little pigs”, anxiousness builds up until the confrontation between the third pig and the wolf.

    Parallelism: the repetition of a grammatical form within a sentence
    example one: “first thing you do is unwrap the gum package; second thing you is open the package; third thing you do is take the gum out”.

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