College Composition / Unit 29 CMP 0722 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Effect on the Reader
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The idea
Every element of a rhetorical analysis returns to one question: what effect does this choice have on the intended reader?
In practice
Devices, tone, structure and appeals matter in analysis because of what they lead the audience to feel, believe or do.
Where people slip
An analysis that catalogs devices without explaining their effect misses its purpose.
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