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The Lorax: Rhetorical Analysis - Coggle Diagram
The Lorax
: Rhetorical Analysis
Rhetorical Analysis Paragraph One
Author
Dr. Seuss, full name is Theodor Seuss Geisel, well published
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Ethos
Seuss
Postgrad at Lincoln college and Sorbonne
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Worked at
Life
and
Vanity Fair
as a writer and illustrator
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Wrote numerous children's books, and even some WWII documentaries
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Graduated from Dartmouth college in 1925
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Context
Written in 1971
published one year after first earth day
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beginning of the environmentalist movement
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Rhetorical Analysis Paragraph 3
Pathos
Guilt
The Lorax makes the reader feel guilt and shame and responsibility
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Animals
After the destruction of the forest, all of the animals have to leave
Images are very sad
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Rhetorical Analysis Paragraph Two
Audience
The audience is children. It is a children's book
The book is illustrated. The pictures are cartoons. They are not threatening or overly dark that children would be afraid, or parents would be offended.
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The text is very simplistic. It is broken down in a way that allows children to understand
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The text rhymes and contains childish names such as "Swoomee swans"
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