Links to rhetorical tools:

Here are links to the rhetorical tools used in this class:

Schemes & Tropes -- Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca -- Fallacies -- Burke -- Rhetorical Toolbox -- Conspiracy Rhetorics

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Ghost story P-OT Analysis

 The O. Henry House

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Premise: Presumptions (The Normal)

Based on a reference group or experience. 

” In 1934, the O. Henry House was turned into a museum. Docents say that it is still occupied by the ghosts of a mother and son who lived there in the early 1900s after Porter and his family moved out.”

Premise Modifiers: Space

Making it feel close

“Staff members have made up the bed before leaving for the day, only to find the impression of an adult's body on the mattress when they return the next morning.”

Based on the structure of reality: Precedent

B won’t slippery slope, but it opens the door.

”For several days, his mother sat by the child's bedside in the front room, holding his hand. When her son finally died, she refused to release his dead hand for two days, until family members finally wrenched the boy's

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corpse away from her. For weeks afterward the grieving woman continued lying on the bed where her son passed away.”

Establishing the structure of reality: Example (Single)

One event is an example

“Staff members have made up the bed before leaving for the day, only to find the impression of an adult's body on the mattress when they return the next morning.”

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