The purpose of this blog is to show what awful disaster cake decorators create. They want the audience to realize what awful creations go out there. They also want the audience to laugh at the stupidity of others. The text is very effective especially with the pictures. It is usually very witty and thought out. It uses kairos effectively. It uses a blog effectively right in the age where they are an effective means of communication. The blog uses imagery, allusion, overstatements and rhetorical questions as the main rhetorical devices. An example of a rhetorical question would be: "I'm talking a What Dreams May Come kinda wildest dream here, not a Field of Dreams kind of dream. But you probably got that already, right?". An example of imagery would be, "It could have fecal footballs with urine-yellow icing and a big ol' dual-meaning inscription like "Go Team" on it. Not that anyone would ever do something that...". An example of an allusion would be, "John and I like to watch those ghost shows on TV. You know, the ones with the frat boys bellowing challenges into empty rooms, and then running and screaming like little girls because "Something just touched me, dude! I swear!" Yeah. Those ones.". This one is an allusion to some tv show that I haven't seen. Some of the visual tools are contrast and proximity. It shows some great cakes too to contrast the truly heinous. They also use proximity. The words are closer to their picture and spaced so that the audience knows what text goes with what picture. An example of proximity would be, '"So first, the electrojiggahiemers were off the scale, and then we found THIS in our photos of the display counter. This could be the evidence of Wreckage after death we've been looking for!"
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Frat Boy: "Hey, ghosties! I bet you couldn't pipe your way out of a paper bag! Yeah, and your bakery is ugly, too! You call this a window display?"'
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Who do you think the audience really is? Maybe a stupid question, but I'm just wondering, does the blog pertain to his friends, anyone who happens to come across his blog, or cake decorators?
ReplyDeleteYou did a good job, I think, with telling what the author wanted the audience to get out of the blog. I agree with everything you said about that. I think that you also did a good job picking out the rhetorical tools used in the blog. I like how you were entertaining in your anaylsis following the pattern of the entertainment of the actual blog.
ReplyDeleteThis blog doesn't really strike me as something with rhetorical intent. But after looking at your examples, it really is. How does the blog use kairos? Do you have specific examples of kairos found in the blog?
ReplyDeleteI think the audience is really anyone who enjoys the humorous mistakes of others, or enjoys looking at botched cakes.
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