One of the rhetorical tools which I found in Zambreno’s article was how well she used Pathos which is the means of persuading an audience by an appeal to emotions such as pity, guilt, anger, or love. She had a play on our emotions from the very beginning when she opened her essay with a joke. This would make readers believe that she isn’t super strict and give a feeling that we better understand the author.
Pathos can have a very powerful effect on a narrative, but in order to use pathos effectively you have to know and understand your audience and what things are important to them, so that you can shape your writing accordingly. I think that Zambreno is really good at understanding her audiences.
I think as girls that we recognize the emotional aspects of things easily. That is an interesting point of view.
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