People Class War - Poor and Rich
Autor: Megpaterson22 • December 6, 2011 • Essay • 740 Words (3 Pages) • 1,803 Views
The audience that best suits this piece would have to be adults starting from around the age of 25 to about the age of 65 and working or has just retired. Most likely this would be targeted to men because they are usually the ones running their family. There social class could be upper or lower although this would be more comical to upper class people.
The type of language used in this writing piece is abstract. This piece is talking about Upper and Lower classes and comparing them. This is an example of an abstract piece of writing because class war is intangible. We can't see it or touch it. The whole piece is written in abstract and example would be "WHAT IS CLASS? Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make." This line tells us that this piece is abstract its based on upper and lower class and explains the difference between them this is the opposite of concrete.
The type of diction I found throughout this piece of writing was slang. The first example found was in this line " What's going to help this shiftless vagabond more". The word vagabond is slang for homeless. Another example of slang that I found was " There are hundreds of scabs out there". This slang word means a worker who goes against trade union policies. It is a slang word that started in Australia.
This piece had much purpose to it. Social Classes have been going on forever. You see it everywhere in America. Whether it's on a commercial showing how a lower class family can save or a commercial showing the upper class family enjoying an expensive meal. Social Classes have always been used as a way of classifying people. It has been an important part of history, as all people know the lower classes are the poorest and the upper class is the richest. It's been a way of classifying workers and there families for a long time.
The hook used in this piece is a anecdote, at the very beginning of the piece he says " From the heart: let me tell
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