<p>For the analysis essay, most will say specifically “analyze how … uses rhetoric to…” but there are some cases where the questions are like this:</p>
<p>-In the following essay from her memoirs, Virginia Woolf reflects upon her childhood summers spent in a seaside village in Cornwall, England. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how Woolf uses language to convey the lasting significance of these moments from her past.</p>
<p>Does this question meant that they want us to analyze the rhetoric that she uses to convince the reader of the significance? do all of the analysis essay’s call for you to analyze rhetoric or are some different?</p>
<p>I think there’s a difference between “analyze how … uses rhetoric” and “analyze how … uses language.”</p>
<p>With rhetoric, I think you’re supposed to focus on things like ethos, logos, pathos, mood, tone, and such, while with analyzing use of the language, you should be analyzing things like diction, syntax, structure, alliteration, connotation, etc.</p>
<p>ok, that’s what I thought, I was just a little confused because a big part of what we did this year was ethos, logos, and pathos, and if the essay isn’t on those it seems like that was a waste of time. Also I’m a lot better at that than writing about “how… uses language”. I don’t really understand what that would matter.</p>