The Onion: Magnasoles Rhetorical Analysis
One of the Onion’s many satirical articles, “Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms Of Pseudoscience”, uses a multitude of rhetorical devices to advertise to, and persuade the reader to purchase Magnasoles shoe inserts. The Onion’s article mocks companies that use questionable sources and testimonies to attract susceptible customers by using humor. The article hints at informed readers about it’s satirical nature by using large exaggerations and a sarcastic tone. The articles main rhetorical device are appeals to authority, like using fake or inappropriate scientific language and doctors that don’t exist, who are experts on a field that doesn’t exist.
Throughout the entire article. The author
