Blog 3A
Katie Smith
English 1010
Professor Marchant
14 September 2015

     In Zambreno's article she uses many different rhetorical tools to connect with her audience. Some of these tools include plasticity and piece meal. Plasticity is reshaping something to fit an audience. Zambreno uses plasticity to put the text in different ways for the audience to be able to connect with. By using different examples and stories. Another important tool she uses in her essay is piece meal. This is defined as using different sources to tell one story. Zambreno uses this rhetorical tool when she uses bits and pieces of different Arthurian narratives to tell a bigger story. She does this in order to help her audience understand the point she is trying to make.

     Some other tools that are used throughout Zambreno's essay are windows of opportunity and open ended closure. A windows of opportunity is a short time in which an opportunity exists, an opportunity to tell a story. This is demonstrated in Zambreno's article when she discusses the Arthurian narratives and leaves the audience to interpret the endings, or the next story to come. This rhetorical tool goes hand in hand with open ended closure. Open ended closure is when their is no final resolution, their are unanswered questions. This tool is used when Zambreno talks about all of Arthur's different narratives and how his story is being retold in different stories today. The reader is able to make up their own ending to the Arthurian narratives because their is no ending.