Art Rhetorical Questions
Anecdote - whimsical - setting the scene (1)
Using descriptive language to pull the reader into the painting (2) "quality of the draughtsmanship, the brush strokes in thin oils, had a Renaissance beauty, but the fearful and compelling thing about the picture was its modernity"
Rhetorical Question (3)
Describing her "safety zone", using books as a symbol (4)
Discrediting herself (4) - ethos
Rhetorical Question (5)
Build up her credibility: ethos (6)
Symbol of foreign city as artwork. Personifying the foreign city "No one is surprised to find that a foreign city follows its own customs and speaks its own language. " (7)
Making an argument that humans are initially ignorant to art (8)
More ethos, giving her credibility as an author …show more content…
Tries to drive point home (56)
Offers example of the inconstancy of people. (57)
Tries show inconsistency of logic (57)
More ethos giving what she can and cannot afford (58)
Paints a picture of how she views art (59)
Offers her formal thesis here (60) "Process, the energy in being, the refusal of finality, which is not the same thing as the refusal of completeness, sets art, all art, apart from the end-stop world that is always calling 'Time Please!
Using descriptive language to pull the reader into the painting (2) "quality of the draughtsmanship, the brush strokes in thin oils, had a Renaissance beauty, but the fearful and compelling thing about the picture was its modernity"
Rhetorical Question (3)
Describing her "safety zone", using books as a symbol (4)
Discrediting herself (4) - ethos
Rhetorical Question (5)
Build up her credibility: ethos (6)
Symbol of foreign city as artwork. Personifying the foreign city "No one is surprised to find that a foreign city follows its own customs and speaks its own language. " (7)
Making an argument that humans are initially ignorant to art (8)
More ethos, giving her credibility as an author …show more content…
Tries to drive point home (56)
Offers example of the inconstancy of people. (57)
Tries show inconsistency of logic (57)
More ethos giving what she can and cannot afford (58)
Paints a picture of how she views art (59)
Offers her formal thesis here (60) "Process, the energy in being, the refusal of finality, which is not the same thing as the refusal of completeness, sets art, all art, apart from the end-stop world that is always calling 'Time Please!