"Backpacks Vs. Briefcases" and Vanessa Bryant's speech

  1. Upload your best page of annotations --you can take a picture and post that, or take a screenshot if you annotated online).
  2. Now that we've discussed rhetorical analysis some in our online conferences and you've read about it, how do you see rhetoric being used in your daily life? Give some examples and explain.
  3. We discussed the rhetorical situation in our online conferences. What was the rhetorical situation surrounding Vanessa Bryant's speech, and how do her words and the tone of the speech reflect the rhetorical situation? Explain.
  4. Choose a couple of rhetorical analysis terms (like pathos, repetition, or any others you see at work here) and discuss them, explaining how & why they're effective in Mrs. Bryant's speech.