Rhetorical Analysis Strategies Worksheet: FAT-P and Didlstone

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Rhetorical Analysis Strategies Worksheet: FAT-P and DIDLStone

Format
(Narrative Structure: letter, speech, diary, POV, Chronological, flashback, Mode of Discourse=narration, argument, description, exposition; Rhetorical Strategies=C/E, definition, division & classification, Compare/contrast, exemplification)
Audience
(Context: who, where, when, etc.)
Topic
(Subject Discussed, excerpt from ?, treatment of subject matter)
Purpose
(Author’s purpose, bias/subjective/objective/informative, background, influence, etc.)
(Items below help create the Style of a piece) / Example (s) / So What? (Analysis)
Diction
(Connotation/denotation, euphonious/cacophonous, syllable count, colloquial, informal, formal, archaic, concrete/abstract,
Imagery
(Smell=olfactory, touch=tactile, taste=palate, gustatory, sight=, sight=visual, sound=auditory)
Details
Language
(Figurative=simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, meiosis, paradox, oxymoron, etc.…Sound Devices=assonance, alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme; allusions)
Syntax
(Sentence Structure-pacing, parallelism; Grammatical=simple, compound, complex, compound- complex; Conventions=semicolon, colon, ellipsis, Sentence length=telegraphic, long; Sentence patterns=declarative, imperative, exclamatory, interrogative, loose, periodic, inverted, juxtaposition, antithesis, repetition, rhetorical ?, Transitions; Conjunctions
Tone
(Attitude of writer/speaker regarding the subject: ironic, sarcastic, bitter,