Rhetorical Analysis

    rs_available?subcom=detailed&id=333772724 2/3 Paper details Required: three to four pages, double-spaced rhetorical analysis of George Saunders' The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. Students will determine whether the story is exposition and just for entertainment or there is a "lesson," a moral imperative, an argument present in the story. It's either a fun experience of imagination or a type of allegory (allegory is a story meant to impart a lesson). If you determine it's a fun experience of imagination, you can concentrate your analysis on the rhetorical triangle and the appeals. Ask yourself, if it's for fun, who would find it fun? Probably not the general public, so then, who, exactly? What do you think that particular demographic looks like? How does the author use the five appeals to persuade that specific demographic this is nothing more than an experience of imagination? Make sure to use examples from the book (paraphrase, quote, summarize) to support your analysis and to support the way you have identified each specific appeal. You will identify the appeal, tell me why it's that appeal, give me an example of that appeal, and then tell me whether that appeal was used effectively in the experience of imagination. Did it help you stay in the story or did it "remove" you from the story?