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Answer each question in depth and provide specific evidence from

the text or speaker whenever available. The more you write, the better!

Title of the text:

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SPEAKER: Emma watson is an advocate for gender equality, movie actor in harry potter
Who is the speaker/writer? especially. Been to many countries trying to help the communities and promote
What do we know about equality. She joined UN women because of several gender based events that
them? What can you tell or constrained her to being like everyone else.
what do you know about She called herself privileged
the speaker that helps you
understand the point of
view expressed?

P
PURPOSE:
What is the speaker/writer
hoping to accomplish?
What is the reason behind
this piece? What do they
want the audience to do
after having listened?
To reach out for help to make gender equality a bigger thing. More specifically to
bring men into the idea because really, they need all the help they can get and if they
can reach out and convince everyone to join them, that’s basically the whole purpose
of the feminist movements.
Some men dont reach out because it may make them seem like losers and suicide is
the main killer of men in teh UK.

A
AUDIENCE: Men in particular. She says things like “my male friends were unable to describe their
Who is the speaker/writer emotions” and if she can convince men to joining the cause that’s all the more help
trying to reach? How do we they can get not to mention that men are the biggest barrier. The feminist idea is
know? Do they indicate a litterally to make women a bigger part of industry. She does not only specify men. She
specific audience? What prompts men to be attentive but it is mostly a message to the world.
assumptions exist in the
text about the intended
audience?

C
CONTEXT:
What is the time and place
of this piece? What is
happening in the world as
it relates to the subject of
the speech or the
speaker/writer?
Gender equality was a big thing since teh 1900s. Women suffrage movements to vote
was essentially what sparked the nationwide movements to allow gender equality.
This specifically was during the HeForShe campaign in 2014. I believe this is all
because of the gender pay gap at the time. There is no country in the world that has
achieved gender equality.

E
EXIGENCE:
What was the spark or
catalyst that moved the
speaker/writer to
act/write? How did that
event impact the
speaker/writer?
“When I was eight is was told to stop being so bossy because I wanted to become a
director”
She has been sexualized her entire life and all her friends dropped out of athletic
classes to prevent being too muscly.
She decided to become a feminist because she wanted more equal social construct.
She says she wants to make decisions about what she wants to become and how she
articulates her physical appearance.

C
CHOICES: She brings up several reasons why the word “feminist” is so derrogatory.
What are the rhetorical I.e. annoying, angry and unattractive. She emphasizes teh word right pertaining to
choices that the what she thinks is right and what she wants to push on to other people
speaker/writer makes in
the speech? Think about
overall structure, devices,
 diction, syntax, etc.

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APPEALS: There is extreme appearance of pathos. Everything she says it to convince and to
Which of the three manipulate people.
rhetorical appeals (ethos, There is also much ethos. She uses her own circumstances and what she’s been
logos, pathos) are present through as a tie to emotional appeal
in the text? Where? Why? Logos is most evident and abundant in the beginning when they introduce teh
organization the speech is for.

T
TONE: She is very solemn. But also sounds a bit sorrowful. Which is understandable given the
What is the circumstance, its not exactly a funny thing to talk about. Her tone is the same
speaker/authors attitude throughout the whole speech. Except for when she mentions herself as the harry
toward the subject? Is the potter girl. When it was a bit comedic. But she quickly returns to her solemnity
tone the same throughout
the whole piece? Where
does it shift? What
evidence is there to
demonstrate the tone?