Rhetorical Situations

Throughout the newspaper article, there are many examples of rhetorical situations that the author uses to enhance his writing and get his message across. Rhetorical devices attracts the reader's attention and it also makes a person's writing more interesting and enjoyable. There are specific words in the article that the author uses that have emotional appeal and enhances the article. Some examples of these words include:"devastating" and "flabbergasted" which are used for emotional appeal and shows how intense the woman's feelings are.I think these words made it easier to sympathize with the woman and her situation and it truly showed how angry she was with the situation and that she was not allowed to have her choice of delivery. Other examples of rhetorical situations include the names of the different sections of the article such as "a woman's choice" because it makes the article more intense and heightens the emotions of the family and the situation. Another example that we talked about in class was the different words such as "uterine rupture" or "episiotomy" because the actual words are bad but the what the words mean invokes emotions and are something that most women do not even want to think about. All of these examples caught my attention and I think it was a very smart decision of the writer to incorporate them in this article. It made the article more effective and portrayed the family's situation in a very detailed way.