Basic Questions for Rhetorical Analysis

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- 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?
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- What occasion gives rise to the need or opportunity for persuasion
- Does the message/speech/text succeed in fulfilling the author's or speaker's intentions?
- What is the form in which it is conveyed?
- What is the content of the message?
- Who is the author/speaker?
- What is his/her intention in speaking?
- Who make up the audience?
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Rhetorical Situation

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Silva Rhetoricae. (page update: Feb. 26, 2007). Silva Rhetoricae. In Basic Questions for Rhetorical Analysis. Retrieved November 9, 2009, from http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Pedagogy/Rhetorical%20Analysis%20heuristic.htm.
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