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New rhetoric prepares students to write analysis, argument and synthesis essays. It includes classic and contemporary readings, fiction and non-fiction.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Lesson 1 What does the passage mean?
From Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Lesson 2 In what ways does the passage require especially careful reading?
From The Crisis by Thomas Paine "Manners,"
from Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
Lesson 3 What are the author's assertions?
"The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel
Lesson 4 What is the author implying?
"Words Sometimes Convey More Than Literal Meaning" by Ted Diadiun
"The Doctor Will See You for Exactly Seven Minutes" by Peter Salgo
Lesson 5 What is the author's point of view?
From The Jungle by Upton Sinclair "The Doctor Won't See You Now" by James Gorman
Lesson 6 How does syntax contribute to the passage's meaning?
From "The Tell-tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lesson 7 Where has the author used fi gurative language?
From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life" by Benjamin Franklin
From "Meditation XVII" by John Donne
Lesson 8 What rhetorical strategies has the author used?
Inaugural Address by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lesson 9 What are the purposes of particular words, phrases, and sentences in the passage?
From "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Pentimento by Lillian Hellman
Lesson 10 Who is the author's intended audience?
Graduation Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lesson 11 What is the author's attitude toward the subject and the audience?
From Tom Jones by Henry Fielding "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston
From Of Plimouth Plantation by William Bradford
"Checks and Balances" by Tom and Ray Magliozzi (Click & Clack)
Lesson 12 How does the author arrange details?
From How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis
Speech at the Women's Convention by Sojourner Truth
Lesson 13 What did the author do, and how did the author do it?
From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Lesson 14 What is the relationship between abstract and concrete language?
From "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving
From Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather
Lesson 15 How does the author's language create the atmosphere of the writing?
From "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards Diary, 12 August 1863 by Walt Whitman
Lesson 16 How does the author appeal to the reader's feelings and sense of character?
"I Will Fight No More Forever" by Chief Joseph
"The Death of Miles" by Marc Gellman
"When Life Makes You Cry Uncle" by Eugene Robinson
"Freedom of Hate Speech" by Jeff Jacoby
"Divisive in Any Language" by E. J. Dionne Jr.
Lesson 17 What questions should the reader ask in order to analyze the author's style?
From The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
From God and My Father by Clarence Day, Jr.
Lesson 18 What is the author's purpose?
"Child in Corner to Exact Revenge as Soon as He Gets Out" from The Onion "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
Lesson 19 What is the character of the speaker?
"A Letter to His Wife" by John Winthrop
From "On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
Preface to Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
Lesson 20 What is the overall effect of the piece?
"Ode to Thanksgiving" by Michael Arlen "Autobiographical Notes" by James Baldwin
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift "Once More to the Lake" by E. B. White
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