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The Death Of Princess Diana

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The death of Princess Diana was an event which shocked the world. Many grieved for her death and sent prayers to the Royal Family while wondering how the event occurred. Throughout the next few days, many news articles and speeches were released about her death, and some were more effective than others. Four articles stand out, and out of the four only two are believed to be rhetorically effective. The first article is a new article written by BBC. The article they wrote is not rhetorically effective because of all the missing components. The BBC article is written in the organizational method of narration. The method of organization is extremely obvious since the author is not making any connection with the audience just stating facts. BBC states in their article, "Diana, Princess of Wales, has died after a car crash in Paris" (BBC np). The author is too formal and does not give any emotion throughout the paper. Since the connection with the audience is lacking, part of the rhetorical triangle is missing making the article ineffective. The audience part of the triangle relates to pathos, and since the thought of audience is missing from the article pathos is not present. Despite the fact many things are missing in the article, logos and ethos are present. BBC establishes ethos because they are a new station, and people trust the news and what they say. Logos is established through the article because the wording is very straightforward in delivering facts about the

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