Diction: The diction throughout the article, "What Black Panther can teach us about international relations," suggests that the author is well informed on the issues seen in Black Panther, but also that they are critical of how Wakanda and its final foreign policy would play out in the real world, were it to be a real country. This is exemplified by the words, "There are many reasons to believe this will fail," which greatly suggests that the proposed foreign policy act would not work, seen especially with the one word, "fail". The tone in the article is seen through the word, "awesome". Rhetorical Devices: The rhetorical devices used were parenthesis, which was used to give context in regards to characters names, if one were to forget the name of the character but remember the name of the actor, which seen with the example of "Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis)". Either way, I do not know who Andy Serkis or Ulysses Klaue are. Tone: The tone is informed and educated about the topic it discusses, as well as a little bit informal, as is common with may web-based news sources. The informed tone is seen with, "imperialism" and "isolationism" both words used to describe specific things from history and political science. The informal tone is seen with the word. "awesome" which is not generally seen, in the context, with old time journalism. Purpose: The purpose of the article was to bring up the legitimacy of Wakanda's foreign policy in a real life scenario. Argument through Appeal: The appeal throughout the entire article is very clearly to logos, as seen through they very nature of the argument, that being that it centers around the legitimacy of a not even real country, appealing to logic to prove that it would not be all that it seems to be when it comes to foreign policy and that the movie largely ignores the issue of what could possibly happen regarding countries' responses, utilizing the United States as an example with, "What would be the effect on America's self-conception if it were so swiftly dethroned from the top of the international hierarchy, and what would be the effects of that on American foreign policy?" which poses the very question, which appeals to logos, a very logical question, what would America's reaction be? Note: another article about Black Panther lol
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AUTHORNoemi is in a yearlong version of AP Lang. Photo on header taken by Noemi Carrillo of her cactus, Frida. ARCHIVES
February 2018
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