Pink Flamingo Price - Discussion

Question 1

tips of analyzing prompts

Answer 1

• read the prompt carefully. note the year given in the prompt
• sometimes the prompt will state the tasks in an unusual way
• pay attention to how the prompt states the warrant
• realize that it will be your job to define or characterize what her view is. that is a “hidden” task is part of this prompt

Question 2

sample organization of rhetorical analysis essay, pink flamingo - price 2006 exam prompt

Answer 2

• introduction
• body para. technique 1
  = history
  – claim
  – data
  – warrant
• body para. technique 2
  = cultures
  – claim
  – data
  – warrant
• body para. technique 3
  = colors
  – claim
  – data
  – warrant
• conclusion

Question 3

iii. second body paragraph - italics

c. ?

Answer 3

italicizing part of this sentence gives the impression “of all things, it was a flamingo”

Question 4

ii. first body paragraph - critical tone

b. ?

Answer 4

price makes a critical remark when she states that “anyone who has seen Las Vegas … on a lawn”

Question 5

iii. second body paragraph - rhetorical question

b. ?

Answer 5

asks “why, after all, call the birds ‘pink flamingos’ - as if they could be blue or green?”

Question 6

iv. conclusion

a. ?

Answer 6

price used rhetorical questions and alliteration to explore the frivolity of American culture

Question 7

iii. second body paragraph - rhetorical question

a. ?

Answer 7

price prompts the reader to understand her purpose by first using a rhetorical question

Question 8

ii. first body paragraph - irony

a. ?

Answer 8

price uses heavy irony to further criticize american culture

Question 9

ii. first body paragraph - critical tone

c. ?

Answer 9

this touches on the ridiculousness of flamingos as lawn decorations

Question 10

iii. second body paragraph - juxtaposition

c. ?

Answer 10

with this juxtaposition, price makes 1950s america seem frivolous and silly

Question 11

iii. second body paragraph - italics

a. ?

Answer 11

price begins the passage by highlighting terms with italics

Question 12

ii. first body paragraph - alliteration

a. ?

Answer 12

price also uses alliteration when describing the history of plastic flamingos

Question 13

i. introduction

a. ?

Answer 13

the history of flamingos in American can document a history of frivolity and ignorance

Question 14

iii. second body paragraph - italics

c. ?

Answer 14

italicizing part of this sentence gives the impression “of all things it was a flamingo”