Rhetorical Analysis essay writing

Rhetorical Analysis essay writing

by Raul Salazar

​What is rhetorical analysis?

​-Rhetorical analysis is all about identifying the rhetorical choices an author makes in his/her writing.

​-In other words, what support does the author use to make his/her CLAIM?

Open Ended

What is a "CLAIM" in a rhetorical analysis?

​How do we write an essay based off of what we read?

​You can write an essay with the following information:

​1. Issue

​2. Claim

​3. Support

​4. Tone/persona

​5. Speaker & Audience

​Support

​Remember ICE!

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​Structure for body paragraphs:

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​Topic sentence (relates to the thesis)

​Introduce citation

​CIte

​Explain citation

Poll

What should be the most well written sentence in a rhetorical analysis essay?

• Claim/Thesis

• Hook

• The Issue

• Perona/Tone

​Identify the claim being made here:

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(War Time)

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Open Ended

What is the claim being made by the poem?

Author name: Sara Teasdale

Poem Title: "There Will Come Soft Rains"

Written during WW2

​Thank you!

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