Could she reach the top in 2012? You betcha
By Frank Rich
Published: November 20, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21 /opinion/21rich.html
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This story, which is about Sarah Palin’s chance for being a president of the United States of America United States of America
Rich describes Palin’s life as “a perilous rock climb”, which is a vivid imagery. This imagery seems to generate sympathy feelings for Palin. In addition, he states that Palin’s popularity will “keep floating above the pack indefinitely”, pack representing the people who dislike her, which means that Palin will be invincible. The use of imagery seems to be the one of piece’s strengths since the author uses powerful imagery to describe her.
“Enshrined”, that is the word that Rich used to describe Palin and her husband, Todd. Rich also uses the word “vanquish” to describe how her new book is going to be popular than George W. Bush’s one. Instead of using the “more popular”, the author decided to use the word “vanquish”, thus creating negative and cruel feelings toward Bush’s new book. In addition, the author describes Palin’s G.O.P favorable rating as an “awesome 80 percent”. This clearly shows that author supports Palin. At last, Rich describes some republicans’ attempt to criticize Palin as “spitballs”. The word “spitballs” seem to generate feelings of pathetic, thus author is trying to show that it is hopeless to criticize Palin. The choice of diction is also one of the strengths of this piece. Readers can clearly see author’s position toward Palin.
Use of syntax is another way for Rich to support Palin. For example, he describes the opposition of Sarah Palin as “so-called Republican establishment”. By using “-“, or as known as dash, Rich was able to make fun of critics of Sarah Palin. Since Rich managed to write this short essay with excellent literary techniques, there is no weakness in this piece.
By using these literary techniques, the author managed to craft a narrative persona and a “voice”, which is that he supports Sarah Palin by using optimism voice and harshly criticizing Sarah Palin’s opposition. Because he used techniques effectively, I find this piece very influential and interesting. I laud him for using such techniques. This story is not appropriate for AP Essay for its speaker use 2nd point of view such as “we’re” and “you are kept guessing”, which is informal.
Pass.
답글삭제Overall good job. I think the same thing I said about your first outside reading applies-practice writing whole paragraphs, instead of having single sentences all by themselves. But, you meet all the requirements.
PASS. You have good content, but next time try and work on polishing these a bit. There are some minor gramamtical errors. I also agree with Tabea, try and group these paragraphs more effectively.
답글삭제Pass. This was a much better effort than your Reflective Essay piece. Your analysis of diction, imagery, voice, and appropriateness for the AP exam were excellent. The paragraph on syntax could use some improvement. I take issue, however, with your interpretation. Frank Rich has been --- since he stated writing editorials for the New York Times --- consistently liberal, in tune with the political leanings of the paper's editorial division. Rich does not support Palin. In fact, if you look more closely, he is actually mocking her. While your rhetorical analysis is technically correct, your conclusions are factually incorrect.
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