Searching for CLTs

When I first read Tom Collin's analysis of Marie Fatayi-Williams's speech, I was in awe of his descriptive wording and how well he was able to pull the reader in.  After learning about logos, pathos, and ethos, PEE structure, and content lexical ties, I am beginning to "pick apart" peoples writing.  This has given me a whole new perspective of how people write and how I read or analyze. 

In the first paragraph Collins uses direct repetition to focus the reader on the point of Marie's speech, her son.  He also uses related words like stirring and heartfelt.  The second paragraph he emphasizes the events that has led to the speech by mentioning the bombings (direct repetition).  In the third paragraph Collins focuses on superordinate and hyponyms by saying her speech was like that of great orators, statesman, and playwrights, of Shakespeare, Churchill, or Lincoln.  He used categories (orators, statesman, and playwrights), then named them (Shakespeare, Churchill, and Lincoln).  Collins, being a military man, is able to use and war and violence throughout his analysis, because he has actually been there and knows they are alike (synonyms).  

I can read his entire analysis and see in almost every paragraph how he used context lexical ties.  In the beginning, seeing the words context lexical ties scared me.  I had no idea what they meant or how I was going to handle this assignment.  After watching the required videos and reading the assigned reading, I was able to really put what I learned to good use.  I didn't analyze the entire reading of the rhetorical analysis, and I'm sure I missed some, but I have a better understanding of the rhetoric of Collins analysis and also, how he uses certain writing methods to bring in his readers.