Rhetoric in Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self

Question 1

Audience / Purpose

Answer 1

Audience: anyone that can read
Purpose: Beauty is more about the inside and people should come to terms and accept themselves. Once you can accept all of yourself, you can become whole and complete (satisfied with what you have become).
“No matter how much pain her eye caused her, she was able to love it.”

Question 2

Invention

Answer 2

From her own life experiences and memories

Question 3

Arrangement

Answer 3

Flashback

Who she was before and how she grew from it

Question 4

Cohesion

Answer 4

Links the passage back to the main idea by repeating: “You did not change,” they say.
She also repeats “I remember” in italics

Question 5

Argument and Proof

Answer 5

Her memories were used to prove her argument

Question 6

Ethos

Answer 6

All over the place (bragging, negative/mournful, confident)

Question 7

Style

Answer 7

Alice walker uses italics to highlight what she thinks or thought at that time, usually key parts of the essay
Repetition: “You did not change,” they say.

Question 8

Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self - Pain vs. Beauty

Answer 8

There is a lot more pain in the story, but generally the beauty outweighs the pain because it is what stands out.

Question 9

On Sight - poem

Answer 9

Shows how she began to see differently after the accident. She began to appreciate sight instead of what she saw.