Author Archives: Karyn Keane

For this post, I will perform a pentadic criticism of the popular “I Stand with Planned Parenthood” logo found on numerous posters and social media outlets. The act of this logo is to persuade viewers to support Planned Parenthood and … Continue reading →

For this week’s posting, I will reexamine the Nicholas Sparks film posters and perform a metaphoric criticism. The rhetor of these six films is a range of white actors and actresses or (more broadly) Nicholas Sparks, who wrote the film … Continue reading →

I have chosen to perform an ideological criticism on six Nicholas Sparks film posters. These advertisements are for The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, The Last Song, The Lucky One, Safe Haven, and The Best of Me. Presented elements in these … Continue reading →

I have chosen to criticize Persepolis and Fun Home, two popular contemporary graphic novels, using generic description. Rhetorical scholar Sonja K. Foss defines generic description when “a critic examines various artifacts to see if a genre exists” (184). Persepolis and … Continue reading →

  This speech is from the fourth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The rhetor in my piece is Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He speaks to an audience of … Continue reading →

Thank you for taking the time to check out my blog! My name is Karyn Keane, and I’m a sophomore at Longwood University. I’m majoring in English with a concentration in Rhetoric & Professional Writing and a minor in Children’s … Continue reading →