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PROGRESSION 1 ASSIGNMENT: RHETORICAL ANALYSIS For this assignment, you will perform an in-depth rhetorical analysis of “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. A rhetorical analysis essay systematically examines one or more rhetorical features of a text in order to deeply explore how they work to achieve the text’s purpose. In a rhetorical analysis essay, you are not simply concerned with what the text is saying but instead with how the text is constructed, and why the writer might have selected certain rhetorical features or strategies. Essay Assignment: Analyze a few significant aspects of “Monster Culture” in order to develop an argument regarding the intended or imagined audience for that essay. You should aim to: 1) characterize the intended audience, and 2) evaluate Cohen’s stance towards his topic and audience To do so, you must: 3) analyze and discuss the functions of Cohen’s rhetorical choices within “Monster Culture,” Your essay must contain a persuasive thesis claim that it develops and supports through analysis of evidence from the text. Imagine that you are writing for other freshman scholars who have read “Monster Culture” and find the text to be rather difficult. Goals: • Identify a problem or question worth addressing, using a passage or personal experience that will reward close reading. • Formulate a thesis claim that makes a strong, insightful (i.e. not obvious) argument. • Establish a motive for the essay in your introduction. Here you will answer the “So What?” question, suggesting why your essay is important and interesting to an intelligent reader. Draw out the implications of the argument in your conclusion. • Structure the essay around your central claim, making sure that each paragraph is adding an essential piece to your argument. • Use evidence persuasively, quoting and analyzing the text when necessary, summarizing or paraphrasing accurately and responsibly when appropriate. Do not provide evidence from other sources or make general assertions (e.g. claims about “human nature”). • Adhere to all relevant formatting guidelines described in the course syllabus. The final draft must be between 1400 and 1600 words

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Emiliano Maya-Tapia
Professor Goff
English 110
19 September 2020
Monster Culture (Seven Theses)
“Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” is an essay by Cohen that speaks about the use of a monstrous figure in historical texts. It is the discussion of a text involving beasts, demons and freaks. The intended audience of this essay is those people who are interested in fiction dealing with the supernatural as well as the writers who like writing about the supernatural creatures in their write-ups. This essay is an interesting piece of literature because it deals with the human psychology of human beings wanting to know more and more about the supernatural, the irresistible attraction that we have to know more about something restricted and evil and how the writer persuades the readers to actually believe his theory of the monster culture by the use of various rhetorical devices.
Cohen makes an interesting analysis of the monster culture in his essay. Rhetorical devices used in this essay are logos, ethos, and pathos by the writer to connect with his audience and persuade the readers about his thoughts on monster culture. Before going in detail of the rhetorical devices that Cohen used in his essay, let us do a quick one line summary on the seven theses that Cohen says about the monster culture. So, the first thesis speaks about how the monster being is a cultural body or a cultural entity. The second one talks about how the monster always gets away with everything. It creates destruction all around and then runs away. The third thesis speaks about how the monster escapes categorization. The fourth one speaks about how the monster is someone among us but we are unable to recognize it. The fifth one is about how the monster always inspects the possible and the impossible, the limitations, and whenever possible hits with something that we never expect. The sixth one explains how the monster practices everything that is forbidden. The seventh and the last one is about the monster dwelling at the very end of a threshold. 
Cohen portrays to his audience that the characteristics of a monster are just used as a symbol of things that already exist in our culture. To make his audience relate to him and to convince or persuade his audience, Cohen uses some rhetorical devices. Let us now see how these Rhetorical devices words. So, let us start with the first one, that is, logos. Logos is a rhetorical device that is derived from the word logic. Logos means logic. This rhetoric device is implemented by the author of this essay by stating facts and statements or arguments that are logical.

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