What makes her hook effective?
Her hook is quite effective in grabbing the attention of the reader, as her mention of the impeachment trial is sure to get many people excited to continue reading. When she transitions into “The report last week….” she relates her topic of the oil and gas industry and the outrage surrounding it to the outrage that people were feeling about the impeachment trial. By making people feel something, she has hooked them into her writing.
Identify three specific examples where her diction exhibits “snap and sizzle” by using more colloquial, informal, or slang language.
One example comes when she says it was an honor system among thieves. Another when she says the situation is laughable. Lastly, her closing statement “And if nothing else, it would ease a bit of our collective outrage, maybe even soothe our weary souls … if only for a moment.”
Identify two places where she uses a shorter paragraph for rhetorical effect – to emphasize a key point.
“So, to appreciate how much this has cost Coloradans in services, consider the governor’s 2020-21 budget proposal.” This paragraph is important at the beginning of the emphasis on her main point.
“What else could we have paid for with the oil and gas penalties we can’t collect?” This paragraph is important in that it shows how upset she is over the issue.
Identify two places where she uses an incomplete sentence, a fragment, for rhetorical effect.
“How else to explain it?” and “Surely it would pay for itself almost immediately.”
In her push leading to her turn, what data and grounds does she offer as evidence?
More than 75% of oil and gas operators in the state had not complied, One of the biggest drillers reported producing 46 million barrels of oil and 187 million MCF of natural gas, the state lost $308 million,
Where is her turn, and what’s her argument?
Her turn is introduced when she says “The sad thing is that while $308 million is pocket change for the industry, it means a lot for the state budget.” She then goes on to talk about the state budget and argues that the money lost by fines that weren’t imposed could have completely paid for the state budget and still had more than $19 million left over.
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