2008 Ap English (Rhetorical Strategies)

Barry expresses his intent of rhetorical strategies through is book The Great Influenza, using anaphora, metaphors, tone, contrast, imagery, word choice, repetition of words, and ethos to drive his claim that be a scientist requires dealing with a huge amount of indecision, and takes fearlessness, patience, and curiosity to succeed. Barry starts pip with a comparison, an antithetical image certainty vs. uncertainty. Beginning with a universal truth, defining complete opposites, intensifies the revelation of the paradox in the game separate that scientists thrive on uncertainty.His use of anaphora further solidifies the wisdom that certainty is positive and uncertainty negative. As he goes on talking about what is required to become a scientist he uses a rather common strategy classification, as he lists traits, receiving the highest order of these traits are intelligence, curiosity, and purpose. It is non the courage, It is the courage is yet another use of anaphora to refine connotations associated with courage through negation of common concepts.Ending his second paragraph with reference to Claude Bernard, Barry is using the famous rhetorical strategy ethos. On the third paragraph he is quiet down talking about scientists plainly he switches from To be a scientist to A Scientist changing from abstraction to practical. In this paragraph he also uses another reference to someone known and praised in the science world, this magazine Einstein. This could be looked at as ethos but also as an appeal to an authority. Initiating the thought of if he didnt do it why should we.As he talks about how scientist could lose their works and even beliefs leaving them further to believe in the process of inquiry I take on pathos because that is powerful to conceptualise about losing everything, that definitely takes courage. But as he ends with To move.. your left with a hopeful tone. You could lose everything but you keep moving on. The next paragraph uses great rhetorical strategies, allusion, simile, and metaphor to build on screening of each other creating intensity. Through the looking glass is an allusion suggesting going into a world that isnt authentic r doesnt appear to be. This leads to the simile like a crystal, which suggestion setting off a chain of events beyond the control of a scientist. Then ends with a metaphor off a cliff suggesting some steps could mean the end. As he proceeds to talk about a scientist career style of a scientist, he presents imagery of a scientist a work by creating a slight example with a shovel digging up dirt, asking a series of forefront to represent the thought process of a scientist. This imagery continues on to the next paragraph, and then in his shutdown paragraph the tone shifts. Not at all is a negation of previous paragraphs reminding you what is common to scientists id not in all scientists. The reputation of experiments and yield, changing the meaning first meaning to produce as in mana geable a bumper crop to suggest giving up as in yielding to a superior force Through Barrys use of all of these rhetorical strategies, it is clear Barry is aware of the uncertainty science contains and the courage and strength it takes scientists to deal with this, and keep moving forward.