Prompt: Find a school appropriate meme. Discuss the rhetorical devices of the meme. How does the meme use ethos, pathos, logos, purpose, audience, stance, genre, and medium?
This meme is about the Patti LaBelle Pies (sold at Walmart) that
surfaced at Christmas time. It uses pathos
to exploit the supposed battle between two R&B divas, Patti LaBelle and
Aretha Franklin. It also uses ethos to
suggest that perhaps Patti didn’t really make the pies herself.
The purpose of the meme is to make fun of the pies since
many have assumed that Walmart massed produced the pies and “slapped” Patti LaBelle’s
name and likeness on the box. The genre
is the fun, teasing side of African-Americans who like to boast about their pie
making skills. The audience is
specifically African-Americans, but could be anyone familiar with the pies.
