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Persuasive Style in To Kill a Mockingbird

Persuasive Style in To Kill a Mockingbird. The student will apply reading strategies when comparing, making connections, and drawing conclusions about non-print text (CLG 1.1.4).

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Persuasive Style in To Kill a Mockingbird

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  1. Persuasive Style in To Kill a Mockingbird The student will apply reading strategies when comparing, making connections, and drawing conclusions about non-print text (CLG 1.1.4). The student will explain the effectiveness of stylistic elements in a text that communicate an author's purpose (CLG 1.2.3) Product: The student will compose persuasive texts that support, modify, or refute a position and include effective rhetorical strategies (CLG 2.1.4).

  2. According to Aristotle, succeeding in persuasion relies on our ability to appeal to our audience. This means that before you write a persuasive essay, you must identify your audience. • Three Fundamental Appeals: • Ethos: credibility of the author • Extrinsic: credentials • Intrinsic: impression of the author’s character (obtained through the author’s voice and tone) • Pathos: appeal to audience’s sense of identity, self-interest, and emotions • Logos:the argument itself Rhetorical Appeals

  3. In order to establish good ethos, ask yourself: • Have I: • consideredtheconcerns of my audience or possible effects on them? • avoidedexaggerating my claims inappropriately? • acknowledgedotherpoints of view with respect? • established that I am credible on the issue? Am I intelligent? • presentedarguments in a manner that shows I respect my audience? Ethos and Establishing Credibility

  4. Appeals to: Sense of Identity Self-interest Emotions I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. Pathos and the Strength of Emotions

  5. Explicit reasons and lines of reasoning the arguer provides to support a position Logos: The Argument Itself • Premises: Background assumptions the author seems to imply • Magazines about Parenting might consider the following as objects of agreement: • Facts: Most parents are frustrated with current day health-care systems • Values: Children’s well-being is more important than corporate profits. • Argument: close fit between claims and evidence.

  6. Persuasive Techniques: Syntactical Elements Do you even know what rhetorical means, Homer? Do I know what rhetorical means… Rhetorical Question: a question for thought, not information, that the author wants the audience to think about and not directly answer: Ex. Do you want assigned seats? The speaker is not necessarily wanting anyone to analyze all of the reasons why they do not want assigned seats. They are merely looking for submission out of the audience. The speaker knows the answer already.

  7. Persuasive Techniques: Syntactical Elements Techniques for Pathetic Effect: 1. Tricolon: three words in a list (the same part of speech) that escalate in effect. Ex. Friends, Romans, Countrymen! I came, I saw, I conquered. 2. Parallel Syntax or Parallel Structure: repetition of the same parts of speech in order to appeal to pathos for dramatic effect. Ex. “Never shall I forget…” from Night “I have a dream today”

  8. Persuasive Techniques: Syntactical Elements 3. Inverted Syntax: the rearrangement of words in a sentence for effect (Like Yoda). Ex. Then fall Caesar. You I love 4. Repetition: Words that are repeated for Dramatic effect. Ex. From Richard III"My conscience hath a thousand severaltongues,And everytongue brings in a severaltale,And everytale condemns me for a villain." Size matters not, ... Look at me. Judge me by size, do you? Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

  9. Persuasive Techniques: Syntactical Elements Varying Sentence Types: Four Types of Sentences: 1. Interrogative: Asks a question. It ends in a (?) 2. Declarative: makes a statement. It ends in (.) 3. Imperative: Gives a direction/ Command (It ends in (.) 4. Exclamatory: Shows strong emotion or exclaims. It ends in (!) Just remember: IDIE

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