01/01/13: Rhetorical devices in the real world. The Guardian online

[Mr. Hendrick]

Today's task:

• Read any three articles from The Guardian

  (They have to be from different sections)

• Pick out three rhetorical devices and post them in the group topic with example.
• Add new words to your vocab document
• Add useful new phrases to your phrases document.

Extension: See if you can find an example of your specialist device.

[Claudia Papke]

1. “Kenya’s Dadaab finds innovative ways to educate knowledge-hungry refugees” - Statistics - In Dadaab, 448,000 refugees, mostly from Somalia, live in five giant camps in a sweltering, scrub-covered expanse of sand. Some camps have winding streets and trees, while the newest feature rows of tents housing people who fled Somalia's famine in 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jan/31/kenya-dadaab-innovative-educate-refugees 

2. “Time Inc to shed 500 Jobs” - Shock Tactics - Time Inc is to cut nearly 500 jobs, about 6% of its 8,000 global staff, said the company's chief executive, Laura Lang, yesterday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/jan/31/time-magazine-downturn 

3. "Burger King reveals its burgers were contaminated in horsemeat scandal" - Hyperbole - Burger King has revealed that some of its burgers were contaminated in the horsemeat scare, as the tainted food crisis threatened to undermine the confidence of consumers, and major retailers tried to protect their reputations. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/31/burger-king-horsemeat 

[Kelsey Johnson]

Rhetorical Devices in the Guardian- Kelsey Johnson

1. Media- Asda cleared over 'sexist' Christmas ad despite more than 600 complaints

1. Statistics: Eight out of ten mothers [of 1,896 surveyed] ... believed the ad reflected common experience, rather than outdated stereotypes.
2. Quotation: "Behind every great Christmas there's mum, and behind every mum there's Asda"

2. Comment- Why women look old. Why January is gloomy. Why the media push this guff

• Hyperphora: Did St Tropez offer the Telegraph a difficult and exclusive story it couldn't get in any other way? Of course not – there's plenty that can be said on these topics.
• Personal Pronouns: We could explore all of these things
• Sarcasm and statistics: But it's much worse than that: the "study" is a survey of the (claimed) "30,000 female British members" of a site aiming to offer women free holidays with wealthy men. How they're expected to repay those gents for their kindness is left to their imagination.

3. Environment- Pollution-hit Beijing residents asked to cut back on New Year fireworks

• Quotation: "To improve the air quality and create a favourable environment for you and your family members, please set off fewer fireworks or no fireworks, in order to reduce emissions of pollutants,"
• Shock tactics: The city's three main fireworks retailers have reduced to 750,000 the number of cartons of fireworks in stock for this year's festivities, down from 810,000 last year.
• Contrasting images: Chinese New Year, which begins 10 February, is marked by riotous fireworks displays traditionally thought to bring good luck for the year ahead, which turn cities into near war zones and blacken the skies with thick smoke for hours on end.
  

[Mark Erridge]

When you are in England, you are gentlemen and you have to understand each other. - hendiadys.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/feb/01/peter-odemwingie-west-brom-transfer
Streets surrounding - alliteration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/31/mexico-americas
Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 13% - shock tactic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/01/us-carbon-emissions-lowest-levels

[borgl]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S_caAm0zrD9-PCwHwOfiZj_401GAnAWkjI6nPM_RuME/edit#

[Annabelle Turner]

1. Business, mining - Potash mine under national park will make Yorkshire farmers millionares 

 My rhetorical device was apostrophe:

 "We're using a lot of subsurface buildings," Murray said. "It won't see daylight until it arrives at Teesside." - apostrophe 

   If the £1bn were split evenly between all landowners, each would collect about £2.5m. - statistics

2. Culture - Ricky Gervais' Derek

Cruel, or just unusual? - rhetorical question

3. Media, news of the world - Senior Met officer sentenced to 15 months for phone-hacking leak

'deeply damaging' alliteration

"He had no reason to lie and every cause to be cautious, given the risk that the newspaper was about to become the victim of a sting," - quote

[Maddie Stephen]

1.Environment -  power of three - 400 types of coral, 240 species of birds and 1,500 species of fish.

2.culture - personal pronoun - you will now be privy to an extract from the forthcoming literary sensation

3.commemt - rhetorical question - So what fresh outrages will the ads this Sunday unveil?

[HenryM]

Article 1. Sport
David Beckham becomes 'the grandpa' of Ligue 1 with PSG move
1. The title ‘grandpa’ hyperbole
2.  ‘sat on the top table at Parc des Princes and followed the script perfectly’
this is a metaphor.
3. spoke glowingly
Personifies the speech

Article 2. Economy
Barclays hit by new Qatar allegations
1. Metaphor. ‘hit’
2.clean up the bank's image
Personification - clean up
3.ahead of its battle
Metaphor

Article 3. Food
1.How does everyone feel about those burgers and the fact that you are also feeding them to your children?

Rhetorical question

2. I will NEVER eat in any of your "restaurants" again
Mocking language
3. FOR SHAME
Hyperbole -

[Ben Rowland]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/21/barack-obama-speech-greatest-hits-rhetoric?INTCMP=SRCH

juxtaposition comparing 2 things

anaphora of we

hypophore of light of freedom question

[impeyf]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eecCriEoKt1jXnvfF_UqSDZMS_Nx48Pj43a9UiC7yWc/edit

[pycrofe]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d38qSmNHa5Q_k-xH7GzgjMJfthQ4XOERq4DiDoa2V-Q/edit

[Kelly Brick]

Business:

Hyperbole -

"Making it the world's biggest potash deposit"

 

Environment:

Shock tactics –

"The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986"

Life and style:

Rhetorical question –

"Imagine a world without managers as a kind of paradise, a place where stuff actually gets done?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/31/potash-mining-yorkshire

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/02/oliver-burkeman-truth-about-managers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/01/australia-japanese-whalers-stay-away

[Dom]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1goo5WPZn8GbmZ1x8KCVXLMAxuCeZFFAeu-t8bdHDMOw/edit

[Ben Barnard]

Lion breeder in Yemen cashes in:

"extensive, lucrative and with a low risk of prosecution. Power of three.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/03/lion-farmer-yemen-exotic-pets

Police steal identities of the dead;

he was shocked at the "gruesome" practice. Hyperbole.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/03/police-spies-identities-dead-children

Matt Prior and Bopara miss out;

sprinkling of representation. metaphor

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/feb/03/matt-prior-ravi-bopara

[Harry Hesketh-Prichard]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2012/oct/05/viral-video-chart-worst-movie-death

"non-existent production values, terrible acting and atrocious clothing" - Cluster of 3

"Let's just hope there's no snakes on Airforce One." - Humour

"We have downloaded every episode" - Hyperbole

[Archie Atkinson]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwbiHKbEHTbB4HTBSkRh2oQ26H8F0oauP1Za4OFUoa4/edit 

[Harry Curtis]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wusm5Q0sJez-zphmFRVcnmyNMVuembzXRp0iFeWEmw0/edit?usp=sharing

[Harry Curtis]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wusm5Q0sJez-zphmFRVcnmyNMVuembzXRp0iFeWEmw0/edit

[bournej]

Sport

1. Beckham becomes the grandpa of Ligue 1 - Hyperbole
2. Shirts will fly off the stage - hyperbole and metaphor
3. He sat on top of the table - metaphor

[Lucy Dundas]

Politics:

"It is a serious, saddening and severe matter that needs adressing immediately" Jamie McDorn. - Alliteration and power of 3

World News:

"No one wants a war, no one expects a war, and no one needs a war" Mark galeotti - Anaphora and power of 3

Education:

"It has been proved that around 2,000 students have been affected by this" - Statistics,and shock factor