Two Broke girls

                    Chapter twenty 

                 

The use of rhetoric is present in our conversations and either consciously or unconsciously   it's also present in the movies, TV shows and plays we watch. During the episode of Two Broke Girls I watched, I found several strategies of rhetoric.  The skills that were involved are: 

Twist a cliché: take them literally and reduce them to absurdity.
Change word order: create a crisscross sentence (chiasmus).
Weigh both sides: offer choice with an obvious answer.
Edit out loud: correcting yourself in mid-sentence.
Turn the volume down: use ironic understanding.
Turn the volume up: climax use overlapping words.
Invent new words: turn a noun into a verb (or vise-versa)
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Two Broke Girls is a comedy show about two young women who own a cupcake bakery that is in debt, during this episode (and several others) we can clearly see the use of rhetoric. The first example is when Caroline gives an obvious answer by showing the notice to Max, this is an example of a twist in cliche where blondes are expected to be dumb by the stereotype of being a "dumb blonde", in this case, Max is the one who doesn't understand the situation. A few minutes later, Max suggests a bad idea to keep the "business going" and Caroline says that they shouldn't take advise from a lady who thinks the "currency advice should be a Mc. Nugget".  Finally, the last example of cliché is when Caroline's aunt states they both have her "full and undivided attention" while she signs some contracts and papers, this shows the classic executive exaggerates the stereotype

Another example in the use of rhetoric is edit out loud, or correcting yourself: "Well I'd love to have you ladies but I forgot my pen number in 2008. Wait a minute, 2008? Thats my pen number". In the quote above, the character comes to a realization while talking, and corrects himself. 

The last example of rhetoric in this comedy show is the weigh of both sides which is also mixed with a cliche: "She has the strength to google? Has she googled "How to eat."? ". This quote defines an issue: anorexia, and also contrasts the figure by showing an obvious answer.