Rhetorical Strategies create Rhetorical Appeals by Michael Wickert https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k You will state three rhetorical strategies used by the author, directly quote from Shiffman's text to show the strategy, and explain which rhtrical appeal each strategy creates. en-us 2020-09-22 15:41:54 UTC 2025-10-26 19:20:50 UTC hello@padlet.com Room 6 https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768964768 Amplification- “We have no feeling for the natural world. We’d as soon cut down our most beautiful tree, the most beautiful forest in the world. We cut it down for what? For timber, for board feet. We don’t see the tree, we only see it in terms of its commercial value.” The appeal this quote creates is Pathos because he wants us to feel as if nature is a part of us by stating that its beautiful twice.  

Kayalani Savell, Ylenia Velazco, Crystal Bastida  ]]> 2020-09-22 16:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768964768 Breakout Room 4 (Amerae, Giovanni, Sofia, Christopher) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768968552 Analogy - “'I say that my generation has been autistic,' he told me. 'An autistic child is locked into themselves, they cannot get out and the outer world cannot get in. They cannot receive affection, cannot give affection.'" This creates the author's logos to give a detailed description of how humans have become apathetic to nature by comparing autism and our treatment to nature.

Simile - “Like adolescents staking out their own place in the world, we asserted our independence
from nature and the greater family of life.” This quote creates logos because of the understanding of one’s mindset to have a lifestyle that negatively affects our environment.

Hyperbole - "Either we develop a more heart-full relationship with the Earth that sustains us, or we destroy ourselves and life on the planet." The strategy used it a hyperbole. He's exaggerating to make his statement more powerful, to make his audience want to make a change.

Personification - “But if religion provided the outline for the story, science wrote it large, developing mind-boggling mystery of the natural world.” This statement is logos because is puts in into perspective how powerful science and religion are as he mentions throughout the article that those two forces will be what save us and the world from ourselves as we continue our struggle for survival

]]> 2020-09-22 16:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768968552 Room 3 https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768982290 Anaphora: ]]> 2020-09-22 16:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768982290 Room 6 https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768990983 Personification - “ The world is alive, everything has spirit, has standing, has the right to be recognized".  The author uses personification to make the world feel alive.  Pathos was used to make us feel as if we do not give the world recognition. 
 
Kayalani Savell, Ylenia Velazco, Crystal Bastida  ]]> 2020-09-22 16:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768990983 Breakout Room 1 (Miguel, Alexis, Joseph, Luisa) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768995403 Similes: "Like adolescents staking out their own place in the world, we asserted our independence from nature and the greater family of life." But over time, this self-assertion became unbalanced, pushing the Earth to the brink of environmental cataclysm. The time has come to leave this adolescent stage behind, said Berry and develop a new, mature relationship with the Earth and its inhabitants.

]]> 2020-09-22 16:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/768995403 Room 6 https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769001709 Comparison- ' I say that my generation has been autistic.  An autistic child is locked into themselves, they cannot get out and the outer world cannot get in”.  The author compares an autistic child to the generation. Autistic children have a hard time connecting to the world like the generation.  Pathos is used in this quote by making the reader feel for the child that cannot connect to the world fully. 

Kayalani Savell, Ylenia Velazco, Crystal Bastida  ]]> 2020-09-22 16:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769001709 Break out room #3 (Kayla, Litzy, Marina, Nani) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769013844 Anaphora: 
“We have no feeling for the natural world. We’d as soon cut down our most beautiful tree, the most beautiful forest in the world. We cut it down for what? For timber, for board feet. We don’t see the tree, we only see it in terms of its commercial value.”
The author does this to put emphasis on the. fact that humans needs to be better. ]]> 2020-09-22 16:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769013844 Break out room #3 (Kayla, Nani, Litzy, Marina) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769042225 Anecdote: “I was gazing out of the window, at the Earth, moon, sun and star-studded blackness of space in turn as our capsule slowly rotated,” he said. “Gradually, I was flooded with the ecstatic awareness that I was a part of what I was observing. Every molecule in my body was birthed in a star hanging in space. I became aware that everything that exists is part of one intricately interconnected whole.”
This experience was used to help readers get a better. understanding, which will help them empathize the writers point of view.]]> 2020-09-22 16:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769042225 Room 5 ( Dariana Casillas, Dennis McKinney, Anahi Vargas https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769048538
Anaphora- “We need a powerful new story that we are a part of nature and not separate from it. We need a story that properly situates human in the world- neither above it by virtue of our superior intellect, nor dwarfed by the universe into cosmic insignificance. We are equal partners with all that exists, co-creator with trees and galaxies and the microorganisms in our own gut, in a materially and spiritually evolving universe” (Schiffman, This creates a pathos. It shows the reader should be doing something about this. ]]> 2020-09-22 16:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769048538 Break Room #2 https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769049741 Adrian Lira
Prescila Ochoa
Danae Guillen
Estephania Gonzalez
Personification
''The world is alive, everything has spirit, has standing, has the right to be recognized.'' Because it's giving human qualities to a non human being.]]> 2020-09-22 16:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769049741 Room 5 ( Dariana Casillas, Anahi Vargas, Dennis Mckinney) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769064726  Metaphor-“I say that my generation has been autistic,” he told me. “An autistic child is locked into themselves, they cannot get out and the outer world cannot get in." Schiffman uses this in order to show a comparison between our current generations relationship with nature and the environment.]]> 2020-09-22 16:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769064726 Room 5 (Dariana Casillas, Dennis McKinney, Anahi Vargas) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769068688 Hyperbole- “Either we develop a more heart-full relationship with the Earth that sustains ya, or we destroy ourselves and life on the planet”(Schiffman,2). It appeals to pathos. ]]> 2020-09-22 16:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769068688 Break out room #3 (Kayla, nani, Litzy, Marina) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769074265 Metaphor: “Every molecule in my body was birthed in a star hanging in space”
Compares the authors image of the way we were created to the universe. ]]> 2020-09-22 16:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769074265 Room 7 (Nora Amavizca, Alexa Dallet, Jesus Amaro) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769100969 Hyperbole: “The world as we know it is slipping away. At the current rate of destruction, tropical
rainforest could be gone within as little as 40 years.“ the author is exaggerating the situation to create an action.

Anecdote: “In a recent phone chat, Mitchell called this realization “the Overview Effect”, and he said that virtually all of the moon astronauts experienced it during their flights... ‘I realized that our story of ourselves as told by our scientific cosmology and our religion was incomplete and likely flawed. I saw that the Newtonian idea of separate, independent, discrete things in the universe wasn’t a fully accurate description”. The author use this anecdote to show his audience the meaning that nature has on their lives.

Personification: “The world is alive, everything has spirit, has standing, has the right to be recognized". The author is using personification to recognize that we should have empathy with our planet so we can understand the importance of it. 
]]> 2020-09-22 16:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769100969 https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769112800 2020-09-22 17:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769112800 Break out Room #1 (Miguel, Alexis, Joseph, Luisa) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769115718 Anaphora -
"Either we develop a more heart-full relationship with the Earth that sustains us, or we destroy ourselves and life on the planet." (page 2) The author uses the word "We" to engage the audience that the reader has to chooses from making a relationship or destroy ourselves and the world. The author is trying to make the reader make a choice to "save the earth" or "destroy the earth".
]]> 2020-09-22 17:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769115718 Breakout Room #1 (Miguel, Alexis, Joseph, Luisa) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769135771 Irony: "It is no secret that the Earth is in trouble and that we humans are to blame. Just knowing these grim facts, however, won't get us very far." The author used irony to show the reader of how things should really be and the reality is that we are in a very bad position, he states "however, won't get us very far."]]> 2020-09-22 17:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769135771 Room 7 (Nora Amavizca, Alexxa Dallet, Jesus Amaro) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769158037  -Hypophora: 
"An economic system that treats our fellow creatures as objects to be exploited
rather than as living beings with their own awareness and rights".  This strategy is used as a transitional device, to take the discussion in a new direction.]]> 2020-09-22 17:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769158037 Room 7 (Nora Amavizca, Jesus Amaro, Alexa Dallet) https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769158254 Anecdote: “In a recent phone chat, Mitchell called this realization “the Overview Effect”, and he said that virtually all of the moon astronauts experienced it during their flights... ‘I realized that our story of ourselves as told by our scientific cosmology and our religion was incomplete and likely flawed. I saw that the Newtonian idea of separate, independent, discrete things in the universe wasn’t a fully accurate description”. The author use this anecdote to show his audience the meaning that nature has on their lives.]]> 2020-09-22 17:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mwickert8/6vtqd6pmn7e77p9k/wish/769158254