My brain is being taken over by rhetorical analysis. I swear it is like a virus that is rapidly multiplying and eating away at my insides until everything around me has been completely rhetorically analified. I am turning into a rhetorical analysis robot.
On Friday, I had my first college tour in Madison. Sitting there, I started twitching at every logical fallacy and rhetorical appeal that spewed from my speaker's mouth. And then to make things worse, I started processing to what extent the devices he was using were effective. I thought this weekend was supposed to be a break from school, but apparently it is stalking me everywhere I go.
I know the fact that I'm noticing all of this should make me feel like I'm making progress but really all I feel is even more lost. I recognize all this rhetoric like its screaming my name in a silent room but it is still beyond me how I'm supposed to put my thoughts into words that make sense and explain the point I am trying to make. I read one sentence of my rhetorical analysis essay and I see five different devices. How am I supposed to pick which is the most effective? How am I supposed to organize a paper that isn't just a jumbled bunch of thoughts?
I need to take a step back and utilize my thoughts. I need to acknowledge that I know what rhetorical devices are and how they appear because that is an accomplishment in itself. I need to sit down and have a good long review session of everything I have learned in class so far. Then I will be able to breathe and say, "Hey, I can do this!" And then maybe, just maybe, rhetorical analysis and I can be friends again.
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