Use of Rhetorical Appeals and Diction in Richard Wright’s Autobiographi

Use of Rhetorical Appeals and Diction in Richard Wrights Autobiographical Work, vague Boy In his autobiographical work, Black Boy, Richard Wright wrote about his battles with hunger, abuse, and racism in the south during the early 1900s. Wright was a endow author with a passion for writing that refused to be squelched, even when he was a young boy. To convey his attitude toward the importance of language as a key to identity and social acceptance, Wright used rhetorical techniques such as rhetorical appeals and diction.In Black Boy, Wright used many rhetorical appeals. For example, in theodolite one, Wright was describing his first day on a joke working for a white family. The white woman gave him stale kail and moldy molasses for breakfast and he refused to consume it. This is an appeal to emotion, or the commiseration appeal. It is heartbreaking that this woman would only give Richard inedible food to eat for breakfast and then be shocked when he refused to eat it. This pas sage also makes the readers pride swell when Richard refused to eat the food. as well in the first passage the whit...