Blog 3A

Allie Winter
English 1010
September 14, 2015

           In Zambrano's essay on the history of King Arthur, she uses many rhetorical tools to connect with her audience. One of those tools she uses is called plasticity, which is the ability to change and reshape your essay in order to accommodate a new audience. She uses these when she transitions into different opinions of the King Arthur stories. Another tool she uses is called piecemeal, which is the term when you piece different sources or parts of a story together to get a new and better story. This has happened a lot over the years because the story of King Arthur has been changed many times. But the author uses this as a tool to piece together all the different parts of the story told over time to make one bigger story that the audience can connect with.
      
            Some of the other tools she uses in this essay are the window of opportunity and open- ended closure. The window of opportunity means its a short amount of time in which a story can be told, which connects and goes together with the tool of open-minded closure which is when the author leaves the story without an ending so the reader can research or make up their own end to the story. These two tools go hand in hand because they allow the reader to connect with the text on their own. They can make inferences and grow a more emotional bond to the text. With the window of opportunity, they can kind of make up the story as they go, especially with this story of King Arthur because there are so many different parts. This is also helpful for the tool of open-ended closure because the reader is allowed to make conclusions on a story that does not have an ending and so it makes them either make up their own end of the story, or research the real ending and it helps them connect with the text more!