Paper #3

  Paper #3 was a rhetorical analysis of a speech of our choosing. For my paper I choose Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech. She gave this speech at the 1851 Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. Her speech was about women's liberation as well as African American acceptance within the society. My paper focused on the requirements of a rhetorical analysis. For example, my paper covers the pathos and logos of Truth's speech. Also my paper covers the rhetorical triangle, author, audience, purpose.
   
  From Paper #3 the writing skill I acquired was just refreshing my skills from ENG 110 about writing rhetorical analysis. However, I did learn from this assignment how to do a rhetorical triangle, because in ENG 110 we would only talk about the author, audience, purpose. We really never actually incorporate it within our papers. The rhetorical appeals we did cover in ENG 110, those appeals are pathos, logos, and ethos.
   
  Here are a few excerpts from my Paper #3:
     
    "...Sojourner’s use of pathos is revealed as she is trying to make the listener sympathetic to her troubles that she had to live with in her time. She is trying to make the listener feel injustice when she talks about not having a good place to live. And to make the listener feel sorrow and grief when she speaks of not have enough to eat, and being lashed. But the most important example of pathos is used when she speaks about her children being sold off and no one heard her cries except Jesus."
     
    "In that section she said, “Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”, this is an example of logos because she is appealing to the audiences logic that if Christ did in fact came from God and a women why are woman not held in high respects as men (Truth, par. 4)?"
     
    "Thus, as read, one can come to the conclusion that Sojourner Truth does indeed use all three rhetorical appeals in her speech, Ain’t I A Woman. That she uses these appeals to convince the listener to bring about a change in society to give women and African-Americans equal rights. "

 

 

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