Aaron Morgan - Rhetorical Analysis GO The Perils of Indifference - 5448890 PDF

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Eight years before the genocide began, Cambodia was engaged in a bloody civil war. The war pitted the Cambodian monarchy, and later the Cambodian Republic, and its allies, including the United States, against the Cambodian communists. The communists received support from the neighboring Vietcong.

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Locally Developed Assessment: “The Perils of Indifference” Directions: Read “The Perils of Indifference” by Holocaust survivor and author, Elie Wiesel, and write down the SOAPSTone elements in the chart below. Then, key into the rhetorical devices he used. In the second chart, record the device in the first column, the quotation from the speech that uses the device in the second column, an explanation for how it is using that device in the third column, and a conjecture of the author’s purpose for using that device in the fourth column. You should be able to identify and analyze at least three rhetorical devices. Speaker

Elie Wiesel

Occasion

Millennium Lecture series, hosted by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Audience

The American People, President, White House Officials, Holocaust Survivors.

Purpose

To persuade the audience not to be indifferent to victims of cruelty and injustice.

Subject

He claims that indifference is far more dangerous than hatred.

Tone

He is somewhat distressed and sympathtical in his tone.

Examples: Repetition, metaphor, anaphora, ethos, pathos, logos, diction and/or tone Rhetorical Device Used Ethos

Juxtaposition

Quotation

Explanation (how)

Author’s Purpose (why)

Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw. And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion.

He is telling his story or stating his credibility on the subject he is speaking on.

So his speech is believable.

A strange and unnatural state in

He uses the examples like,

He's showing that there is

which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil.

“Dusk and Dawn” which are two opposites but still relate to eachother in this instance.

so much hatred and crime in the world but yet, we can still relax and not worry about it.

They no longer felt pain, hunger,

He uses “They…” 4 times which adds rhythm and parrelism

When he uses this parallelism, it lets the thought of these dead people laying there come out smooth wher we can only focus on the imagery and not on his wording.

He repeats indifference to add emphasis to this word.

He wants to repeat indifference to show the importance and the emphasis on how bad and evil indiffernce.

Parrelism thirst. They feared nothing. They felt nothing. They were dead and did not know it.

Repition

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten....