N this lesson, you will review the transcript of a Public Service Announcement (PSA) about distracted driving to highlight some of the rhetorical devices used. Then you will view the video version of the PSA and pay particular attention to the word choice, points of emphasis, and images used to create effect and tone. Assignment
For this assessment, you will complete the Evaluating a Speaker worksheet.

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

analyze an author's purpose in a text, including the ways that style and content contribute to the persuasiveness of the text
analyze a speaker's point of view, reasoning, use of evidence and rhetoric, links among ideas, points of emphasis, and tone

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?