Politics And The English Language Rhetoric

What is considered an effective composition? Is it the one that explains its ideas more clearly than the others? In order to have a clear and effective composition, the writer must make an appropriate use of genre. Genre provides the composition with style, design, appeal and approach towards the audience. In “Politics and the English language”, George Orwell managed to fulfill his purpose by making use of the different conventions of the composition’s genre. Orwell used his argumentative essay as a way to communicate his concern for the English language by making use of facts, evidence and a set of rules ,which served as a way to improve one’s writing skills.
As it is commonly required by argumentative essays, Orwell supported the composition’s purpose of showing the decay of the English language by exposing the common mistakes that writers, during his time, used to make. He attributed the deterioration of the English language to politics. He supported this statement with many examples. They ranged from excerpts plagued by worn out metaphors to fragments full of senseless wordiness. Most of the examples had a common mistake; they lacked focus on the message of the text. The meaning, in most of them, would get
The essay did not use visuals, but it used metaphors and similes instead to approach readers by the use of language. For example, a simile Orwell used was “Phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house” (99). He also included metaphors such as “The concrete melts into the abstract” (Orwell 99). There was no need to include images. The argumentative essay possessed an objective view of the topic being explained. It also possessed a serious tone that was to be changed in certain parts of the composition. Therefore, the essay was very detailed, informative and