Phuong
Anthony Phuong
Mrs. Boisa
AP Language
July 25, 2012
Following a Journalist
Robert J. Samuel persuasive style emphasizes his view on the economy and how it has its ups and downs. He uses literary devices such as rhetorical questions and diction to achieve effectiveness with his persuasive style of writing and to show his purpose of his articles, his purposes are to make the readers reading his article start to see how the current economic states of some nation are.
Samuel has a persuasive style of writing; to show that he has persuasive style of writing he uses rhetorical questions. For instance, Samuel asks a question that already has the answer to it, “Can anyone doubt that the euro’s creation in 1999 was a huge blunder?” This question shows how Samuel style of writing persuades the reader to understand his point of view by presenting them with a question that has only one answer. This question is worded in a way where the only logical answer is that it is a “huge blunder”. Furthermore, Samuel asks another question that has the answer to it, “Wonder why government can’t restart the sluggish economy?” The obvious answer is that the government can’t restart the sluggish economy because the economy is in such a bad spot the only thing to do is fix it. This shows the persuasive style of writing that Samuel is expressing because he’s trying to persuade his readers that the government is doing nothing to help the economy.