Jimi Hendrix once said, “I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” I couldn’t agree more. Who are you to tell me what to do? Who are you to hold me back? I understand that there are limits, sure, we can’t all go out and trip on acid for days at a time, but what’s a little experimenting? Not that I’m into that. Me? I want to zip line through the Costa Rican rain forest and ride the Eurail as far as it will take me, it’s my life. Make a bucket list, then do everything on it, who are they to stop you? They tell you to obey the Man, so you think you need to stick up to the Man, forget that, you need to be the Man; the leader of your own life.
In my paragraph, I used the technique of rhetorical questions. By using this technique, I make the audience really think about the topic at hand; think about all the possibilities of their lives if they lived without boundaries and without fear. The rhetorical questions not only prompt the reader to think about my life, but also their own. By saying, “Who are you to tell me what to do?” the audience is able to ask themselves who is stopping and limiting them. Rhetorical questions really draw the reader in to the specific piece, giving them something to think about as it applies to their own lives and situations.
I notice that you wrote your text in a way to convince or persuade your audience. Your uses of rhetorical questions made me want to put myself in your shoes and really think about the things you were saying. I think that you chose to organize your blog this way to keep your audience engaged by asking questions, which makes them subconsciously answer them in their head. You also used inspirational sentences, for example when you said "forget that, you need to be the Man; the leader of your own life." this quote was inspiring and will make your audience think deeply about what they read. I did not notice anything that you left out in this blog, but this did give me inspiration for future writings I may have. Your use of rhetorical devices back to back really inspires me to use more rhetorical questions in my writing.
ReplyDeleteI recognized that you wrote your paragraph with literary devices. You used rhetorcial questions to draw the reader into your writing and keep them interested. This is very pursuasive because you have their attention and you keep it the whole time because of all the rhetorical questions. You said, "who are you to tell me what to do" and "make a bucket list, then do everything on it, who are they to stop you?" This makes you question your life and whose holding you back from what you want to accomplish. This is also very imspirational and i might try it in my writing.
ReplyDeleteJaci, you did a very good job of showing that you know how to use rhetorical questions in this paragraph. Opening up the paragraph with a quote is a great way to get the readers attention right away. Also, your tone in this piece is very bold, moving and forceful. “They tell you to obey the Man, so you think you need to stick up to the Man, forget that, you need to be the Man; the leader of your own life.” This quote particularly expresses your tone. I can also see that you use this technique to attempt to persuade the reader. “Who are you to tell me what to do? Who are you to hold me back? I understand that there are limits, sure, we can’t all go out and trip on acid for days at a time, but what’s a little experimenting?” by saying this you show the reader your opinion without using you which is also a very good technique.
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