Text Analysis: What I Have Found Interesting Thus Far

When enrolling in English 103 I thought that it would be some boring class about nouns, verbs, and adjectives but as usual I was wrong.  Thus far there have been quite a few interesting topics that I have come across and rhetoric(in general) is my favorite.  Rhetoric is the art of persuasion through some sort of medium.  Whether it be text, TV, or pictures they are all used to try and sway our opinions.  The reason that I found this so interesting is because rhetoric is everywhere I turn.  Also the fact that it is broken up into three main categories is neat to me.  Pathos, logos, and ethos are these three categories.  Pathos has to do with feeling and emotion.  Logos has to do with facts and information.  Ethos has to do with reputation and representation.  Rhetoric itself not only interests me but the way that I am now able to look at pretty much any add or commercial and I am able to analyze it is awesome.  I can analyze it to the point that I can write a fairly lengthy blog post about any of it.  Whereas before this class a couple of sentences is essentially all that I could do.  I hope that as this class goes on more interesting and useful information comes from it!