Rhetorical Analysis

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Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetorical Situation

the context

historical references

social, economic, political and cultural events

the topic

why did the writer decide to write about this particularly

writer's audience

how the writer views the audience

writer's purpose

implied or direct

encouraging action

hidden agenda

who is the writer

preconceptions about the subject

writer's background

Writer's means of persuasion

Ethos (authority)

Pathos (emotion)

Logos (reason)

Rhetorical Strategies

Stylistic Techniques

rhetorical questions

repetition

parallelism - use of similar grammatical structures to emphasize related ideas

allusion - reference within a work to a person, literary or biblical text or historical event to enlarge the context

metaphor

simile

Evidence

Organization

how the writer arranges ideas

Thesis

how does the thesis placement have an effect

what is the argument being made