Connecting Rhetorical Choices to Meaning: Paragraph
Task: Create a rhetorical analysis paragraph of at least 9 lines about your color marked passage #2.
Format:
Topic Sentence: Statement of author’s purpose. What does this section reveal? What does the author want to show through this passage?
Sentence of Context: What is going on at the time this passage occurs?
Chunk 1: Diction (Use the template in your Yellow pages to create a chunk of analysis on the author’s diction. It should be at least 3 sentences and contain an embedded quote and at least two sentences of commentary analyzing the diction, what it conveys, and why it is significant.
Chunk 2: Another rhetorical choice (Use the template in your Yellow pages to create a chunk of analysis on the author’s rhetorical choice. It should be at least 3 sentences and contain an embedded quote and at least two sentences of commentary analyzing the rhetorical choice, what it conveys, and why it is significant.
Concluding Sentence- Relate this section to some idea of theme (level 2 word in color marking.)