In “We Wear the Mask” the author's purpose is to encourage readers to show their true selves and a call to action to take off the mask we all wear. We see how the author encourages us through multiple pieces of rhetoric. He repeats powerful phrases, evokes emotion through words, brings us together as one whole people, creates a flow which continues the piece and shows us life without the mask. Dunbar inspires others, calls for action, teaches a lesson and more through powerful use of words and mood.
Dunbar teaches a lesson by repeating the phrase, “We wear the mask”. Continually throughout the piece he reminds us we all wear a mask to cover our true selves. He later goes on to explain the problems we all face but at the end of every stanza
absolute text, so readers are inevitably bound to interpret ‘the produced object of attention’ as each reader brings their own personal meaning to the text. This then conveys another argument to what exactly is the value of irony itself? Is irony a rhetorical device or a stylistic tool?
I will now care to argue that both Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) deliberately place the reader within the predicament of trying to decipher what irony is and how it is tolerated and concealed…
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