Class Notes 1-11

1.       What is the exigence?

2.       Who is the audience?

3.       What are some of the constraints?

4.       What appeal(s) were being used here?

5.       Describe style, delivery, arrangement, arrangement, memory?

Salvation notes                                                       

1.       Everyone is telling him about the “Jesus Experience” but he doesn’t feel it. (forced Spiritualism) It is wrong to make someone feel something or do something. Lying (hypocrisy)

2.       Christians, those burned by Christianity, bullies (those who identify with forced spiritualism)

3.       People exposed to religious background, or the revival. People who don’t understand the context of terminology. Genre ‘Memoir’ (not much research, informal)

4.       Ethos- ethics of pressure. Pathos- crying in his room in the end.

5.       Style- personal, child’s perspective with sophisticated language, intimate. Delivery- kind of the same, short essay. Memory- peer pressure relation and powerful end.

Toys notes (underlying political tone)

1.       French toys are counter-intuitive to childhood. Children should have creative toys

2.       Parents, Freudian believers, mainly to a French audience

3.       Nationality, time period, family and academic audience.

4.       Pathos- using the children, thrown into gender roles, forcing them out of childhood. Logos- the facts and how toys were made, language (elevated diction). Ethos- diction, a lot of thought and detail.

5.       Style- formal, dense Memory- French culture, memory of your own toys.

Why We Crave Horror Movies

1.       We all are insane; we need an outlet for our dark thoughts.

2.       People who love or hate horror movies

3.       He has to stay talking about horror movies. Location (leisure and ability to watch horror movies) Age constraints (baby boomers and younger)

4.       Ethos- because of who he is, Pathos- the topic, humor and shocking, Logos- in language

5.       Style- informal, editorial Delivery- gets your attention Arrangement- We are all mentally ill, and builds. Memory- horror movie, historical allegations. Feeding gators

Road Warrior (satirical)

1.       Public Rage, media making road rage a huge deal, poking fun at society as a whole

2.       1^st World citizens

3.       People who can’t read, people who don’t get satire.

4.       Pathos- humor, Ethos- he lived in Miami, Logos- theological (indirect)

5.       Style- satirical, Delivery- bullets flying through the window, Memory- his topic we all know or have experience.