AP English_ Rhetorical Situations

The part of the rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers to create a text.

• Exigence

• Context

• Audience

• Purpose

• Speaker

Writers create texts within a particular context that includes the time, place, and occasion (if there is one).

• Exigence

• Context

• Audience

• Purpose

• Speaker

The person or people receiving a text.

• Exigence

• Context

• Audience

• Purpose

• Speaker

The reason for a text’s existence; not the topic, but what the speaker hopes to ACCOMPLISH with it

• Exigence

• Context

• Audience

• Purpose

• Speaker

The source of a text; the person or group who has created or is creating the text.

• Exigence

• Context

• Audience

• Purpose

• Speaker

Match the following

• Purpose

• The source of a text; the person or group who has created or is creating the text.

• Context

• The person or people receiving a text.

• Exigence

• Writers create texts within a particular context that includes the time, place, and occasion (if there is one).

• Audience

• The reason for a text’s existence; not the topic, but what the speaker hopes to ACCOMPLISH with it. 

• Speaker

• The part of the rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers to create a text.

Exigence is often an "EVENT" that happens in a particular context

• True

• False

What is this an example of?

Rosa Parks’ arrest was the exigence of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the greater context of the Civil Rights Movement

• Exigence

• Context

• Speaker

• Audience

• Purpose

What is this an example of?

Shakespeare’s context was London, circa 1600. MLK’s context for many speeches was the Civil Rights Movement. Office Max sells bulletproof backpacks in the context of an American society plagued by school shootings.

• Exigence

• Context

• Speaker

• Audience

• Purpose

What is this an example of?

Besides entertainment, one purpose of the comedy Don’t Look Up is to persuade the audience to take better care of our planet.

• Exigence

• Context

• Speaker

• Audience

• Purpose