Dimitri is preparing for a group discussion about the
use of Adichie's rhetorical strategies. Read the excerpt
from "The Danger of a Single Story" by Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie.
The American writer Alice Walker wrote this about her
Southern relatives who had moved to the North. She
introduced them to a book about the Southern life that
they had left behind. "They sat around, reading the
book themselves, listening to me read the book, and a
kind of paradise was-regained."
I would like to end with this thought: That when we
reject the single story, when we realize that there is
never a single story about any place, we regain a kind
of paradise.
Which is the best clarifying question for Dimitri to ask
about Adichie's use of rhetorical strategies?
O How does Adichie's use of ethos make me feel?
Why does Adichie use logos and repetition
together?
O Why does Adichie use repetition and pathos to focus
her audience on how people view others?
O How does Adichie's use of ethos support her
purpose of showing the importance of all stories?
