Sehun Bolaji

10/14/19

Rhetorical Analysis On the Story of Icarus and Daedalus

In the story of Daedalus ( A famous craftsmen in Greek Mythology) and Icarus (His Son) was locked in a tower above Minos (The King of Crete), to keep the secrets of the labyrinth hidden. In order to escape, Daedalus using his crafting skills had crafted two pairs of wings for him and his son to escape. Since Daedalus had crafted the wings using wax, he warned Icarus not to fly too high so the wax won’t melt due to the sun or fly too low so the feathers wont get wet due to the seawater. On their way to freedom Icarus forgot his father’s warning and flew too close to the sun, causing him to fall to the sea and drown. The purpose of the story of Daedalus and Icarus is that you should always heed your parents warning. The basic concept of the story Daedalus and Icarus is that hubris (Pride) is a bad thing. It could be said that the subtext is that you should always heed the advice and warnings of your elders, particularly your parents.

The story of Icarus and Daedalus targeted a younger audience, as shown by how Icarus was a young protagonist and fell to his doom not only because of his pride, but because he did not heed his fathers, Daedalus, a more experienced and wiser man warnings. The tone of the story is Egotistical, Arrogant, and Grim. It was egotistical due to the fact that he let his pride get in the way of his judgment. It gave off an Arrogant tone because he did not heed his father’s warning even though he was warned about the consequences of it. Finally, a Grim tone was set because at the end he had faced due to his ignorance. The Myth uses the rhetorical appeal known to us as Pathos. This Myth has an emotional appeal as shown by it using a connection between father and son to get its moral lesson across. Pathos is more effective than ethos and logos due to the target audience. The target audience is a younger age group, to be more specific,  those who don’t respect or listen to their elders, anyone older than them. By using a pathos appeal it keeps the younger audience more entertained. Using stats from ethos and facts from logos would bore the younger generation, if they’re not entertained they won’t be able to get anything out of this mythical story, prohibiting the writer from getting its message across. For instance, icarus getting cocky and flying too close to the sun and falling to his death is more entertaining than that of someone simply saying that listening to our guardians will have a positive effect on us in the future.

Work Cited

https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Icarus/icarus.html

Jevon Williams

ENG 1101

Rhetorical Analysis

Music writing is something that can not be taught, so it is a pointless exercise in a way to write a book called How to Write About Music.However, while you can’t teach anyone how to write beautiful prose about this melodic art form, you can encourage, shape and structure lessons to empower the reader to write about music. As Rick Moody states in his timely foreword to the book: “The lack of a dominant template is one of the many similarities between the music writing of the seventies, let’s say, and the music writing of our own time, is the lack of a prevailing format.”

He’s Right! There are hundreds of magazines in the twenty-first century, thousands of music blogs, YouTube channels, journals, etc. all clamoring for well-written articles, think pieces and musings on popular and not – so-popular music.

If writing for a blog, there are no more rigid word count restrictions; the possibilities are endless and it’s intimidating. Yet while the way we listen to and consume music has changed so much, an album’s basic concept remains the same.The exercise of defining and praising an album is therefore still a very true and sought-after method of writing music. Reviewing an album is not an easy task.

“The critic both uses and is sometimes blind to his prejudices and ideals – the more you know about yourself and how you process what you’re writing and given that self-knowledge, the better … Don’t write as someone who doesn’t care about what you care about.”

Tiffany Muse                    

Eng 1101

Artists partnered with CCG Network Radio, in the article, “What Makes a Hip Hop Song Hit Worthy” discusses the process of making a hip hop song and what important parts and elements are incorporated in order to make a popular charting hip hop record. The purpose for this article was for hip hop artists on the rise that make music at home and want to make a popular well known song. They adopt an ardent and candid tone so as to stay on track and get straight to the point in order to appeal to the targeted audience of artists that are here for a straightforward formula and answers to their questions and possible struggles.

CCG Network Radio begins the article by setting up a foundation and breakdown on what makes a popular hip hop song. It focuses on what attracts people to a song from what is most important, which in this case is the flow of the artist and how the words and music go hand in hand. The author  starts out with how to better appeal to a general and more broad audience which is the result of a song being a hit. This is followed by the author using metaphor to emphasize its importance by stating “words fit with music like a glove” (CCG Radio 2). This shows how they go together to become one and how its all about presence and the confidence of how the artist would recite the lyrics rather than the actual words you are saying. This is the key component because it gives listeners a reason to listen to the song and keep them listening to the point of wanting to repeat and follow along to match the artists rhythm and flow. The next important part of creating a hit hip hop record is the beat that goes behind it all. The beat is often the first thing that catches people’s attention along with the song’s hook and the author makes note of that by expressing that “the beat is the foundation that will be the first attention grabber” (CCG Radio 5). By stating that the author gives insight to the reader and allows them to think and reflect on when they listen to hip hop/ rap songs and begin to realize that everything being pointed out is true and can relate to why they like certain songs. Another important element in making a hip hop/ rap song is the ability to have a song that can relate to the general public. The author makes sure to highlight the importance of this by providing examples of ways some songs may only be relatable to a specific group which would prevent popularity in a song among a larger group of people. The article ends off with a tip from the author on a type of revision. The author suggests the artist to listen to their song from a different perspective to see if they truly see the song being good enough, by stating to “listen to the song with objective ears” (CCG Radio 6). This is important because it allows the artist to fight against their potential bias against their own music. This is a good tactic because it provides the artist the chance to take the art more seriously of trying to make a hit worthy song. This article provided piece by piece the necessary components that need to be taken into accountability in order to make a potentially popular and top charting song in hip hop/ rap. This genre follows a very particular formula and this article by CCG Network Radio breaks down that formula for others to learn, know, and garner success as a hip hop/rap artist. 

Work Cited 

“What Makes a Hip Hop Song Hit Worthy?” CCG Network Radio, 13 July 2017, https://ccgnetworkradio.com/makes-hip-hop-song-hit-worthy/.

Here is your opportunity to practice the rhetorical analysis we started in class! After reading the Annotated Bibliography prompt, do some research and thinking before you decide which genre you want to become an expert on in Unit 2. Then, choose a text that falls within that genre and rhetorically analyze it in this post. (Check out the Annotated Bibliography prompt again to review the features within and surrounding your text that you should consider when doing your rhetorical analysis).

Be sure to identify your chosen genre in your post’s title. Oh–and check the “Rhetorical Analysis” category when publishing your post.

For extra credit, respond to 3 of your classmates’s posts, offering ways you think they could enrich their rhetorical analysis and/or recommending other texts within their genre that they might consider for their annotated bibliographies.