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Rhetorical Artifact Analysis Speech Assignment

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Example of a Preparation Speech Outline

(This is what you are shooting for)
(Please notice how the additional sources support the ideology of this analysis)

Whats the Big Idea?

Topic: Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Specific Purpose: To enlighten my addressees about the rhetoric condition and procedures
used by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her speech Whats the Big Ideal?
Thesis: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie embodies virtuous role of writers, expertly acquired
competence through sensitivity, efficiency of speech delivery, and exactly systematized
arguments to give addressees the sense of belonging and identity.
INTRODUCTION.
I.
II.
III.
IV.

V.

She said, I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories
about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." Whats the Big
Idea?
I have researched this speech / speaker extensively and know about her story
through her recordings and videos. Further, she inspired me with her career
and how she influences others as a public figure.
Ngozi Adichies speech is an embodiment of effectiveness, in technicality; she
shows perseverance and was able to show the importance of the perpetuation
of multiple stories in our lives.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie embodies virtuous role of writers, expertly
acquired competence through sensitivity, efficiency of speech delivery, and
exactly systematized arguments to give addressees the sense of belonging and
identity.
I will be focusing on the rhetorical situation that gave rise to her speech and
analyze her use of appeals such as ethos, pathos and logos that were used to
provide a moving argument for the artist to the audience.

Transition Statement (Read Exactly As Is): First, let me introduce the speaker and then
the context that surrounded the speech.
BODY

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I.

The rhetorical situation / context of the speech Whats the Big Idea?
a. The speaker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is a risk taker and an
audacious writer when she dropped courses in medicine in expense of her
goal of becoming a writer.
b. Born in the city of Enugu, in 15 September 1977, She left her country at
the age of 19 and went to Philadelphia for a scholarship at Drexel
University ( Adichie, 2008).
c. She has given the speech about Danger of a Single Story in Ted Talk
filmed July 2009. Now that we have known Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
let us deliberate the appeals she spends to contend her point.
d. The audience consists of attendees were teachers, thinkers, students,
celebrities, and writers.

Transition Statement (Read Exactly As Is): Now that we have set the scene, lets discuss
the appeals she uses to argue her position.
II.

Analysis of rhetorical devices

a. She uses ethos, or credibility, as a well-known audience attention
grabber to capture and keep their focus.
i. She uses tone and style to present her speech to the audience.
ii. Then, she uses ethos to provide credibility of his work as she sort
examples of her inspirations and her goals. Ultimately, the
arrangement of her ideas, from her personal experience, to
learning, and to the applications of these learning.
b. She appeals to the audiences emotions with a strong sense of pathos.
i. Her language is vivid and descriptive, uses pathos upon the
introduction of herself. She uses the persuasive appeal of pathos to
incorporates her sense of identity, telling the audience her
capability of being a good story teller, and telling the audience
about what he had learned from personal experience that shape her
to be what she is today.
c. Most importantly, her logos (the arrangement of all of her ideas) add to the
power of her message in a way that other appeals cannot.
1. Her logos provide powerful impact in engraving her
arguments to the mindset of the audience.
a. She basically starts story telling her life,
incorporated the credible peoples inspiration on
her, and acknowledge that she have come what she
is today because of the accumulation of the stories
she heard, by which she did not just take for
granted.

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ii. She uses her position to inspire and to change the general trend,
people see African American see today. Ms. Adichies appeal is
constant, with no self-depravation of truth and emphasizes the
importance of her arguments all throughout the speech to the
audience.
Transition Statement (Read Exactly as is): Chimamanda sets an audacious tone in this
introduction one that carries through the rest of the speech.
CONCLUSION
I.
II.
III.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie depicts what virtuous writers and educators

should do to help other people battle ignorance and stereotyping.
Hopefully, it is of a great fulfillment hearing how she influences the audience
with her powerful speech.
Adichie uses ethos, pathos, logos to show the audience the dangers of hearing
a single story while encouraging people to find their own sense of identity. It
is because, a lone, single story professes only half the truth, and half is
dangerous.

References
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. (15 Jun. 2008). As a child, I thought my father invincible.
I also thought him remote . The Guardian. Retrieved 11 Nov. 2014,
from http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/15/biography.features4.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (Jul. 2009). The Dangers of a Single Story. TED Talks.
Retrieved 30 Nov. 2014, from
http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?
language=en.
Hemingway, E. (1984). Ernest Hemingway on writing (L. Phillips, Ed.). New York:
Scribner.
Isocrates. (2010). Isocrates II (T.L. Papillon, Trans.). Virginia: University of Texas Press.
Chimamanda Ngoz Adichie. British Council of Literature. (n.d.) Retrieved 30 Nov.
2014 , from http://literature.britishcouncil.org/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.

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