A Global Pandemic, Our National Epidemic
In my class called Art of Rhetoric, we studied how speech, presentation, and body language affects how people interpret a speaker. In order to make a rhetorical analysis, you must study the context, speaker, genre, occasion, and especially the audience. There are different rhetorical appeals too, that go into any rhetorical speech or situation. There are three kinds of rhetorical appeals. These are logos, which appeals to logic, ethos, appealing to the credibility of the speaker; trust, and finally pathos, which appeals to the emotions. For our Action Project, we had to create a speech for a candidate that was up for election in our government. I choose Dick Durbin because has been a senator for Illinois for some time now. He is currently up for reelection, so this video is based on how I think he should respond if someone asks him questions specific to gun violence. CH. "Rhetoric AP1." Youtube, 2020. Question: "You say you favor an “assault weapon” ban, but most murders