The Omnivore's Dilemma Persuasive Strategies

“How could a plant take over our food chain and push out almost every other species?” (40).

• Rhetorical Question

• Bandwagoning

• Plain folks

• Anecdote

“See those chicken nuggets in the freezer case? They are really corn wrapped up in more corn. The batter is made from corn flour. The starch that holds it together is cornstarch. The oil it was fried in was corn oil (19).”

• Bandwagoning

• Repetition

• Plain folks

• Logos

“Back when Georges’s grandfather
started farming, farmers grew their own
seed. That’s the way farmers had
always gotten their seed” (Pollan 34).

• Repetition

• Pathos

• Logos

• Bandwagoning

"The middle school has so few students left it can no longer field a baseball team" (39).

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Bandwagoning

“When Naylor’s grandfather arrived in America the population of Green County was near its peak: 16,467 people. In the 2006 census data it had fallen bellow 10,000."

• Bandwagoning

• Anecdote

• Logos

• Pathos

“It was the first week of May and I was at the wheel of a clattering 1975 International Harvester tractor, driving through an Iowa cornfield" (30).

• Anecdote

• Logos

• Bandwagoning

• Plain folks

“Todd Dawson, a biologist at the University of California, Berkley has done exactly that kind of research. He says that when you look at the carbon in the average American’s cells, ‘we look like corn chips with legs'" (22).

• Anecdote

• Pathos

• Pathos

• Ethos

What is point of view in a nonfiction text?

• The perspective of the narrator.

• The author's perspective.

• The perspective of the main character.

• The perspective of the antagonist.

What is the purpose of nonfiction?

• To inform

• To entertain

• To convince

• To persuade

“That’s the dilemma--we can eat anything, but how do we know what to eat?” (10)

• Rhetorical question

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Repetition