#Rhetorical Analysis

[rezakiofficial]

Mann I love this game so much im writing one of my essays on it. 💀💀

[thatsoheeron]

This is not very Christmassy and maybe a longshot but I've been very fortunate to have many kind and intelligent peoople as friends on here, does anyone have any resources on how to analyze argumentative statements? Specifically political/social/ideological ones. More specifically fascist arguments of the American (Trumpism) variety.

I'm thinking of making a segment where I highlight and break down rhetoric I come across online, and essentially teach the building blocks of critical thinking/analysis and making it free for the public.

If anyone has any resources on how to teach these tools or any advice on which direction I can head in that would be greatly appreciated!

Also happy holidays everyone!

[beelzebubsbois]

You ever find a post so weird you want to do a rhetorical Analysis of it??

[khalidistan]

I'm being mildly facetious but I also just have been thinking abt this so I'm gonna ramble, this is also gonna mostly be abt drake's verse bc (stares at a wall)

who told you badman don't dance? / who told you gangsters don't dance? even with a weap on my hip, I dance

this lyric is saying how men who are typically viewed as "tough" are still able to indulge in lightness and joy. when hus says "even with a weap on my hip, I dance" he's contrasting the image of the violent, fighting man with the levity of dancing

touch my forehead, chest, left shoulder, then right side / praying my brothers are good outside / I know the vibes, I know the vibes

aside from the fact that drake is jewish and will more often than not don islamic aesthetics (affectionate. literally he should do it more. I want him to say wallahi on the next album) yet is doing the holy cross prayer (? what is the term for this), this part could (in my analogy) relate to praying your comrades are still safe through the revolutionary struggle

you're the one, girl, stop rolling eyes / I find love and it slowly dies

this is like. I really like songs that have this sharp lyrical contrast between love/pursuit/romance and the internal/existential dread, anik does this a lot in his music too. like through all the pain they're still trying to find love and flirt and impress but this little voice in the back of their minds says "I find love and it slowly dies" this also relates to the fact that during armed struggle your lover could literally die. like killed by the colonizer.

trouble is there, trouble is there / trouble been right there, trouble is there / trouble gon' find me anywhere, trouble gon' find me, bubble and wine-y

this part is so resigned, like accepting one's circumstances (see next pull-quote too) and yet drake switches it with "yeah anyways, bubble and winey" I could connect this to constant/hyper-surveillance, deliberate targeting by the state, or just plain bad luck no matter what you do to resist it, but also this is an afrobeats song with drake

they want me dead, but, don't remind me / both hands around you, it's not tiny

we've gone from accepting one's suboptimal/grim circumstances to accepting one's mortality, potentially premature mortality. and yet he pushes it to the back of his brain to focus on the present and his lover. like is that not revolutionary or what (my internet disconnects

if you read to the end of this post I am so sorry for subjecting you to my psychic damage. hope you enjoyed. this is what happens when you let leftists listen to drake

[colomkola]

The other day, I was writing an essay from my AP Language class, and i was running short on time, and I felt like i needed to really spice up my conclusion paragraph, so i decided to try to allude to Martin Luther's 95 Theses, like the thingy he nailed to the church door to say why the Catholic church sucks dick. Now why did i do this... I have no fucking clue i just did. And so i wrote "really hammers the thesis to the church door"

And i know thats actually so ass, but ykw? Im extremely proud

[localfaecryptid]

Nothing About Us Without Us

I recently had to do a rhetorical analysis essay for my composition class and I chose Alison Kafer's amazing essay "Imagined Futures". I liked it so much that I decided to publish it to my Substack. The formatting had to be weird due to the assignment requirements so I might post a more polished version where those clunkier bits are taken out, but I also think it's a good template for how to write your first rhetorical essay if you want to dip your toes into the water.

[popcorn-plots]

I'm learning rhetorical analysis :)

Send me fics to rhetorically analyze so I can practiceee

[teachanarchy]

Watch "Rhetorical Analysis and Transfer | Rhetoric & Composition | Study Hall" on YouTube

[theweeklydiscourse]

I’m sick of people passing off patronizing and condescending commentary about how naive and impressionable women are as useful and educational. These people will base their analysis of fiction on sexist notions about how easily women are “tempted “ by malevolent villains and then act as if that’s some revolutionary take. They’ll unironically construe the narrative in a way that takes away all agency from the female heroine and frame her decisions as entirely the result of the villain’s manipulation.

They wring their hands about how dangerous it is for women to be exposed to these stories and moan about how terrible it is that hot villains appeal to the “baser instincts” and tempt female viewers further (Yes, I actually saw someone make this argument) It’s truly bizarre to see people agreeing with such patronizingly sexist rhetoric and saying things like “I miss the days when villain romances were cautionary tales and not encouraged.” As if women thirsting after attractive fictional villains is some epidemic that threatens society.

It’s especially irritating when women are the ones saying these things. They want to believe that they are a rare exception that, unlike those other brainless girls, can understand that liking hot villains will threaten their morals and lead them astray…OH THE HORROR!! Please save your dramatic preaching for the next purity conference and stop pretending that your sanctimonious commentary has any substance whatsoever.

[rainbow-sunshine-unicorn]

No but you don’t understand how much I love that Anthony doesn’t see pleasuring Kate as a means to an end, but rather a complete purpose in and of itself

Anthony is someone who eats his wife out because he derives his pleasure from the act, and not because he sees it as a precursor to penetration.

I love how Anthony centres Kate’s pleasure from the very first time. In the gazebo scene, he keeps his pants on the entire time. In season 3 ep 1, he has his pants off and he’s still focused on eating her out. In ep 5, his idea of a quickie is eating her out. He enjoys making her feel good and that’s his entire purpose

It’s not just that the focus is on a woman’s pleasure but also that there is such a refreshing lack of emphasis on penetration as the whole sole end goal, especially in the context of a heterosexual couple. It’s so beautiful and important. To me, that is the embodiment of the female gaze.

[jomtones-bussy]

People on tiktok infantilizing curly from mouthwashing and saying that him becoming crippled was his punishment. Killing u. With my teeth.

[thematthewmmurdock]

If I see any of yall praising Trump for “bringing back tiktok”— and yes I’m using the strongest air quotes— I’m gonna smack you. He literally orchestrated all of this. Please use your brain.

[wayward-stardust]

Do you ever think about the fact that without the King attempting to freeze Vaugarde, the ISAT party would have never met?

Despite all the harm he caused, despite the unforgivable tragedies that occurred, Siffrin wouldn’t have gotten to find their family if it wasn’t for him. Mirabelle would still be living at the House, struggling to find her place in a faith she doesn’t feel like she belongs in. Isabeau would still be working as a Defender. Odile would never have gotten to travel across Vaugarde with people so familiar with its culture.

Do you think that, once time has passed, Vaugarde remembers the King not just for the lives he hurt but also for the change he brought?

Do you think that Siffrin ever recognizes that the person he fought so hard to defeat is also the reason he had something worth fighting for?

[imyelling]

I really love the Big Think episodes on YouTube where an expert talks to 5 people with varying degrees of difficulty because it captures the transition to the “less confident” answers of an expert. They start with an elementary school student and work their way up to talking with another expert in their field.

Ok now do NYT columnists

[caesarflickermans]

I adore the parallels between Peeta and Caesar. On that first interview night, Caesar saw someone who managed to get the crowd to their seat's edge in much the same way as he can. He's likely only seen that a few times in his career & that made something with this character in how he views and perceives Peeta.

While I theorise that he saw Peeta winning that whole thing on that very night, meeting him again & again in front of a camera was seeing a genius bounce off of another genius to watching a kid deteriorate in front of his eyes.

I think more than once before the war began, Caesar must have seen something in Peeta that resembled himself. There was this kid with so much talent and charisma that he could have given Caesar a run for it had he been born in the Capitol.

What did that do to Caesar? To look at a kid from the Districts and have that kid stare back? Did he recognise a younger version of himself in him—separated only by place of birth in how their chances played out? And how must it have felt to watch that mirror deteriorate in front of him?

[astroacespace]

Hey y'all I did this little rambling essay for a class. Nothing to fancy, but if you wanna hear my thoughts on Dave Strider and hear about my guy through Pawnee's New Man analysis, give it a watch! Also some fun thoughts about being trans, getting kin married, and other things. Hope you check it out :)