Project Three Rhetorical Analysis

Alexandra L. Minton
November 10, 2008
Project Three Analysis Handout
Four Modes


Juno. Screenplay by Diablo Cody. Dir. Jason Reitman. Perf. Ellen Page, Michael Cera,

Jennifer Garner. Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2007.

1. Describe the visual and textual elements which reflect issues from your Project Two exploration.
A visual element would be seeing Juno pregnant.

2. List the overall argument and purpose of the film.
This film is about a sixteen year old girl who becomes pregnant the first time she has sexual intercourse. The story is about her journey during her pregnancy and what she decides to do with her unborn child.

3. Describe the specific audience for the presentation. (Age, gender, education, etc.)
The intended audience for this film is geared toward females between the ages of 16 and 25 with a high school education.

4. Examine and describe how the rhetorical appeals are operating in the presentation.
A. Ethos
B. Pathos- Juno goes through an emotional journey.
C. Logos

5. Explore and evaluate the effectiveness of the rhetorical appeals on the presentation.
Pathos can be seen easily. Juno talks about how she feels and we see her cry in the film twice.

6. Discuss how this presentation could be used to teach your audience about the topic. Make sure that you integrate your evaluation of the rhetorical appeals in this discussion.
Juno is a sixteen year old who had sex only once and didn’t use protection. She got pregnant and has to deal with the consequences of her action. She has to tell her parents, she has to walk through the halls of her high school, she has to deal with her changing body, she has to go through the ordeal of giving birth and she has to decide what to do with her unborn child.


Harris, Robbie H and Emberly, Michael. It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about

Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health. Cambridge, MA.

Candlewick Press. 1994.

1. Describe the visual and textual elements which reflect issues from your Project Two exploration.
The book has illustrations and descriptions of the topic of the book.

2. List the overall argument and purpose of the book.
This book’s topic is sex education. It is made for younger children who are getting ready or are going through puberty. The book explains what males and females are to expect during this time. It lets children know that what they will or what they are going through is ‘Perfectly Normal.’ Changing bodies and sexual health are a natural part of growing up and knowing what to expect and how to care for yourself are the main goals of the book.

3. Describe the specific audience for the presentation. (Age, gender, education, etc.)
The audience for this book is children. Particularly for children who are about to go through or are going through puberty.

4. Examine and describe how the rhetorical appeals are operating in the presentation.
A. Ethos- This book contains medical facts.
B. Pathos- There are illustrations of all different types of people. The book tries to get youngsters to accept and deal with the changes that they are going to be going through.
C. Logos- This book contains illustrations that are explained through text.

5. Explore and evaluate the effectiveness of the rhetorical appeals on the presentation.
The rhetorical appeals are effective. They are clearly defined

6. Discuss how this presentation could be used to teach your audience about the topic. Make sure that you integrate your evaluation of the rhetorical appeals in this discussion.
This book is a guide that will teach children about their own bodies, their bodies as they go through puberty and also what to expect when they are of an age to take care of themselves sexually.

Bright Bling Sparkles. “Condom.” Light Over Darkness. 2006.

1. Describe the visual and textual elements which reflect issues from your Project Two exploration.
This is a song has auditory elements. These auditory elements reflect issues about sex education.

2. List the overall argument and purpose of the song.
This song is about condoms and how they are important to prevent the spread of disease, AIDS in particular.

3. Describe the specific audience for the presentation. (Age, gender, education, etc.)
The audience for this song are children and teens.

4. Examine and describe how the rhetorical appeals are operating in the presentation.
A. Ethos-
B. Pathos-
C. Logos-
*This song is not in English. It is in Twi.

5. Explore and evaluate the effectiveness of the rhetorical appeals on the presentation.

6. Discuss how this presentation could be used to teach your audience about the topic. Make sure that you integrate your evaluation of the rhetorical appeals in this discussion.


Children Having Children. Time Magazine.

1. Describe the visual and textual elements which reflect issues from your Project Two exploration.
A visual element would be seeing the photograph on the cover of this edition of Time Magazine. It’s a photograph of a very young girl in a nightgown. And she’s pregnant.

2. List the overall argument and purpose of the photograph.
The photograph tries to drive home the reality of the issue of teenage pregnancy.

3. Describe the specific audience for the presentation. (Age, gender, education, etc.)
Since Time Magazine is geared toward people concerned with national and world issues, I think that the audience for this presentation are white, middle class Americans. Especially parents who have teenage children.

4. Examine and describe how the rhetorical appeals are operating in the presentation.
A. Ethos- Time is a well-established, trusted magazine that has been around for decades.
B. Pathos- You feel for the young girl on the cover who is pregnant. She looks so young, so innocent and so fragile. She should not have the responsibility of caring for another life. And the life that she carries should not be punished because she is too young to care for it.
C. Logos- The logical question that the audience would ask is, ‘Why is this happening and what can we do to help stop it?’

5. Explore and evaluate the effectiveness of the rhetorical appeals on the presentation.
The rhetorical appeals are effective in this photograph that makes up the cover of the magazine. You have all the aspects of the rhetorical appeals: credibility, emotion and logic.

6. Discuss how this presentation could be used to teach your audience about the topic. Make sure that you integrate your evaluation of the rhetorical appeals in this discussion.
Teens could see this photograph and see themselves. They too are young, innocent and fragile. They need to see that they need to take precautions. It can happen to them. By the look on the girl’s face in the photograph, it doesn’t look like she was expecting that it could happen to her, and it did.