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Rhetorical Analysis # 3: Stiff by Mary Roach: Prof
Rhetorical Analysis # 3: Stiff by Mary Roach: Prof
March 24,2020
Prof. Rovasio
English: 303
In the first and third person the perspective in which Roach explains the story is
reduced. Roach offers information on her encounters with cadavers and also gives you
some historical context on the beginning of operations and how it has been used or
she puts out is like, “maggots feast on the subcutaneous fat of a dead body sounds like
Rice Krispies” (pg.68). The explanation is that the image is conveyed to the reader.
This underlines how Mary Roach felt about what she was writing."Cadavers are
our superheroes, she uses a metaphor. She says. (pg.10) They survive fire without tear,
stop dropping into walls from high buildings and smashing head-on cars. She says,
"Don't say stiff, corps, cadaver," scolds the Embalming theory and practice.(pg.77)
crack, pop, the sound of the maggots feasts on fat. Mary Roach uses a simple or casual
dictionary so that the readers can grasp her point and the examples she gives in the
novel. Her mood is applied to her syntax. Roach organizes the book by describing the
different uses after death for the human body. Every chapter presents an explanation