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

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Bigfoot argument analysis

 


Premises

Presumption

The likely

Some measure of intuitive judgement

WHEN MY FRIEND DWAYNE, WHO WAS DRIVING, TURNED TO GET ONTO OUR DIRT ROAD, I THOUGHT I SAW SOMETHING STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD UP AHEAD

Premise Modifier

Presence

Space

Making it feel close

NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYBODY ELSE ON HERE, BUT HE AND I, GOT A CHANCE TO SEE THIS THING UP- CLOSE AND PERSONAL, NO MISTAKING. THERE IT WAS, A BIG CREATURE STANDING "SMACK" RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. I WOULD SAY THAT OUR CAR WAS ONLY ABOUT 10-15 FEET AWAY FROM THIS THING.

Based on the structure of reality

Succession

Pragmatic

Evaluation of an act through consequences

AT FIRST DWAYNE, DID NOT HAVE ON HIS HIGH BEAMS, AND SO I TOLD HIM TO TURN THEM ON. NOW, LISTEN, WITHOUT THE HIGH BEAMS WE SAW THIS THING VERY CLEAR, BUT IMAGINE WHEN WE DID TURN THEM ON!

Based on the structure of reality

Coexistence

Prestige

A quality of a person known by his/hers effects

BY THE WAY, DWAYNE, WAS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE AREAS MOST FEARED GUYS

Establishing the structure of reality

Metaphor


Analogy where theme and phoros are condensed into a phrase.

WHEN WE GOT TO THE HOUSE IT WAS LIKE A STAMPEDE, BECAUSE WHEN WE GOT IN TO THE HOUSE, YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT WE WERE ON THE RUN FROM THE POLICE ! 

Based on the structure of reality

Succession

Direction

Doing B will slippery slope to D.

WE WERE AFRAID TO TO CALL THE COPS, BECAUSE WE DID NOT WANT THEM TO THINK THAT WE WERE CRAZY, AND SO WE KEPT QUIET. WE DIDN'T NEED ANYBODY TELLING US THAT WE MUST HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DRINK OR WE HAD BEEN SMOKING SOMETHING.



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