Rhetorical Analysis

1. Good, functional introduction. State your perspective. You must understand the passage correctly.

2. Concrete details: (cite excerpts)

Discuss strategies, rhetorical devices used in passage.

What patterns? Repetitions? Vocabulary? Tone?

CLOSE Reading: language? syntax? diction? pathos? logos? ethos?

3. Well written analysis. Tell me what is there.

4. Confident tone.

5. Explain HOW the devices are used.