A rhetorical analysis considers all elements of the rhetorical situation--the audience, purpose, medium, and context--within which a communication was generated and delivered in order to make an ...

If you’re in college, chances are you have written a rhetorical analysis of a piece of writing before. Analyzing the tools authors use to influence their audience is a common assignment in most ...

Here is an extract from a candidate’s essay about the theme of love in Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 18’: The first way in which the writer shows the theme of love is through rhetorical question.

Churchill’s extraordinary speeches hinged on a series of Classical rhetorical devices. In an essay entitled The Scaffolding of Rhetoric, he described their use as ‘the subtle art of combining the ...