3 Step Guide to Rhetorical Analysis
Step 3: Break it down with SMELL
● Sender/receiver relationship: What is the stance between the speaker and audience? ● Message: What is the claim, really? What is the speaker’s tone toward the topic? Do you see any shifts in tone as you are reading the piece? ● Evidence: What kind of evidence is given and to what extent? ● Logic: What is the quality of the reasoning? What types of appeals are being used? Are there any fallacies? ● Language: What stylistic and rhetorical devices are being employed (tropes,schemes, diction, syntax) to communicate the message and how? |