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Basic Questions for Rhetorical Analysis Source: http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Pedagogy/Rhetorical%20Analysis %20heuristic.htm What is the rhetorical situation?  What occasion gives rise to the need or opportunity for persuasion?  What is the historical occasion that would give rise to the composition of this text? Who is the author/speaker?  How does he or she establish ethos (personal credibility)?  Does he/she come across as knowledgeable? fair?  Does the speaker's reputation convey a certain authority? What is his/her intention in speaking?  To attack or defend?  To exhort or dissuade from certain action?  To praise or blame?  To teach, to delight, or to persuade? Who make up the audience?  Who is the intended audience?  What values does the audience hold that the author or speaker appeals to?  Who have been or might be secondary audiences?  If this is a work of fiction, what is the nature of the audience within the fiction? What is the content of the message?  Can you summarize the main idea?  What are the principal lines of reasoning or kinds of arguments used?  What topics of invention are employed?  How does the author or speaker appeal to reason? to emotion?

What is the form in which it is conveyed?  What is the structure of the communication; how is it arranged?  What oral or literary genre is it following?  What figures of speech (schemes and tropes) are used?  What kind of style and tone is used and for what purpose? How do form and content correspond?  Does the form complement the content?  What effect could the form have, and does this aid or hinder the author's intention? Does the message/speech/text succeed in fulfilling the author's or speaker's intentions?  For whom?  Does the author/speaker effectively fit his/her message to the circumstances, times, and audience?  Can you identify the responses of historical or contemporary audiences? What does the nature of the communication reveal about the culture that produced it?  What kinds of values or customs would the people have that would produce this?  How do the allusions, historical references, or kinds of words used place this in a certain time and location? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License . Gideon O. Burton , Brigham Young University Please cite "Silva Rhetoricae" (rhetoric.byu.edu) Trees | S ILVA R HETORICAE | Flowers

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