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English 1213
Assignment Sheet: Rhetorical Analysis
Description: For this assignment students are to choose one of four genres of text, then analyze aspects of that text. You may use the methodology as in your paper if you wish, determining how your text correlates to one or more parts of the rhetorical triangle (speaker, message, and audience). I will provide resources that model this process for each of the three genres listed below:
- Literature: Students choosing this option will read a poem, play, or short story, then read this literary text for rhetoric in the manner outlined in class.
- Music: Students choosing this option will analyze a song from the last hundred years of popular music. You should focus on lyrical content, but may also consider other aspects of the song such as instrumentation and vocal delivery.
- Advertising: Students choosing this option will analyze an advertisement, whether print or television, applying the visual rhetorical techniques we practiced in class.
- Film: Students choosing this option will view and analyze a film using methodology from this class, from a Film Appreciation class/text or from other resources for film analysis found in the library or online.
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