Rhetoric in Little Things

Question 1

Audience / Purpose

Answer 1

Purpose: move the audience to examine their own selfishness
Audience: mature audiences (children wouldn’t really understand)

Question 2

Invention

Answer 2

Argument based on what he has viewed in society

The argument of people being selfish (alludes to: king salamon’s wisdom)

Question 3

Arrangement

Answer 3

Chronological order, nothing special

Question 4

Cohesion

Answer 4

Conveys the pace of dramatic events by leaving out transition words, using shorter sentences, and ordered chronologically (again, isn’t this arrangement)

Question 5

Argument and Proof

Answer 5

Argument: People are so selfish that they hurt those they love the most
Proof: Society’s behavior, his experience of the breaking up of families

Question 6

Ethos

Answer 6

Distanced, not much emotion

Question 7

Style

Answer 7

Choppy and short to add to the objective feel. Says “he said” and “she said.” Simply written, sort of “lack” of style - (a measure of creativity?)

Simple and colloquial, doesn’t use slang or crazy long words. It’s simple and easy to understand to imply both how distant the characters are from the narrator as well as the generality of the situation (how it can seem to generally happen more frequently: breakdown of marriages)

Question 8

POV

Answer 8

Shifts between omniscient and objective

Question 9

Previous name of LT

Answer 9

Popular mechanics

Question 10

Baby symbol

Answer 10

Symbolizes the relationship being torn apart