I am working on 8C: Water Wars: Bottling Up the World's Supply of H2O. One of the tools Joshua Ortega uses is analogy. He compares the clarity of the idea that tap water is cleaner than bottled water to the clear plastic of those very water bottles. This is an effective rhetorical device and he uses it with style. It works to show exactly how clear rhe evidence in his argument is. Also, The use of statistics creates good imagery. He states that 14 billion water bottles were sold in the U.S. in 2002 but only ten percent were recycled. This becomes great imagery as he states that 12.6 billion water bottles are now filling up our landfills. One of his better sentences is a rhetorical question: "But how can bottled water be contaminated and still sold in the U.S.? It gives the reader time to pause and thin about the statement as he jumps into the explanation. Back to analogy, the contrast between to two choices is made clear through the use of the words clear and clarity. Ortega creates an image in our minds of that difference through his analogy. In this way he combines analogy and imagery which works well for his argument. Ortega also incorporates a great irony as he mentions and supports the fact that the manufacturers use more water to make the plastic bottles than actually goes into them. This irony is shocking and akes us realize how wasteful this is.