Instead of answering all the questions about Why We Lie, I'd like each of you to choose one question from # 1-7 and post a response to the blog. (First come, first choice. Once you've responded to my invitation, you can create posts and publish them to the blog.)
Please make sure that you put the question # in the title of your post so that your classmates will know that question is taken. You can illustrate your post if you wish.
Then, on old-fashioned paper, write a paragraph that addresses question #8.
I claim Question #3!
ReplyDelete#3. The intended purpose of the quotations at the beginning of each type of lie is to offer examples of each type. Each quote corresponds to the type of lie it was written above. Not only that, but it also seems to prove that lies, in all forms, can be found everywhere. They are uttered by philosophers, authors, cynics, and priests. Everyone, at one point or another, lies in some way, shape, or form. And this also serves to prove her point, as stated in the final portion of her essay, "No matter how pious we may try to be, we will still embellish, hedge, and omit".
#2
ReplyDeleteThe rhetorical function of paragraph 36 is to get the reader to think about Ericsson's argument in perspective of their own life by asking a series of rhetorical questions. These questions, which are targeted directly at the reader, serve to provoke the reader and emphasize Ericsson points. Unlike with hypophora, Ericsson never answers the questions, but instead she leaves them open-ended, allowing the reader to really think about what the answers might be and develop their own opinions.
#5 Shall be mine
ReplyDeleteThe small event in Ericsson's life that makes the difference is her small lie stating she has sent her bank deposit. At the start of the essay, the setting is a hard day where she claims it's in the mail to get through without getting into another hassle. However, at the end of the essay, she has reviewed just how lying works from applications to types. After seeing just how much of an effect lies have, either emotionally or physically, she stands firm that she will tell the truth, although it could have detrimental effects.
#1
ReplyDeleteIn paragraph three Ericsson uses asyndeton to speed up the rhythm of her speech and effectively communicate the idea she was presenting. Her use of asyndeton through omission of conjunctions in connected statements has the effect of clearly communicating her idea that we all lie. Her presentation of the statements is made more effective because with one idea in mind she points out the ways in which we lie without bothering herself with connecting conjunctions. This makes for a rhythm that emphasizes her idea and strengthens her argument in its concise nature.
#7
ReplyDeleteEricsson uses logos when talking about "out-and-out lies." She uses logic to help her argument that everyone tells lies --even if they are not always complicated-- when she notes that "out-and-out lies" are the least complicated type of lie because the person telling the lie simply "tries to refute reality" instead of trying to "refashion it." This explanation is logical because if anyone has ever heard an "out-and-out" lie, they know that the person telling the lie completely denies something instead of changing the story a little and adding some parts that are true to a fake story. "Out-and-out lies" take away the complications of trying to analyze and figure out the person's motive for telling a lie. Therefore, it is logic that these lies are the simplest to understand of all the lies.