Tools to use when working with non-fiction like articles, essays or speeches.
Rhetorical analysis - why?
The aim of a rhetorical analysis is to determine whether it fulfils its purpose or not.
How to make a rhetorical analysis.
Establishing the rhetorical situation:
Topic - what is it about?
Writer/speaker
Reader/audience
Circumstance
Language
Intention
Rhetorical features that can help a speaker accomplish his/her goal.
Structure - composition of the whole text. How does it start, how does it end?
Language: Formal, informal, academic, low style etc.
Sentence structure - short or long or…
Alliteration - when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore.
Repetition - anaphora (repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of sentences or paragraphs)
Contrasts (antithesis) - when two opposites are juxtaposed in a sentence, paragraph or a whole text. It is not death I fear. It is life.
Imagery - metaphors, similes. Life is a rollercoaster - Life is like a rollercoaster
Choice of words, connotations. A commonly understood subjective cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries in addition to the word's or phrase's explicit or literal meaning.
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