The Rhetorical Triangle

Rhetorical
Triangles
pt.1

Poll

The three points of the 1st Rhetorical Triangle are

• Speaker tone message

• Speaker audience message

• Audience writer purpose

• style speaker purpose

Multiple Choice

What are the three points in our first Rhetorical Triangle?

• Speaker, tone, audience

• Message, purpose, style

• Speaker, audience, Message

• Purpose, writer, audience

Speaker

​Some things we need to ask ourselves when defining who our speaker is can be...

1. Who are they?

2. What is the gender/ race/ socioeconomic/or political orientation?

3. What do they know & feel?

Multiple Select

How do we figure out what message the writer is trying to convey?

• we ask ourselves what is the main point?

• We ask our selves what argument is being made?

• We come up with one.

• We figure it out

Message

​Some things we askour self when trying to figure out what the message is can be...

1. What is the topic/main point?

2. What is the argument being made?

3. What does the speaker want us to know?

Audience

​Ask yourself...

what is the audience’s expectations and knowledge of the subject?