Today, you learned how to complete a rhetorical analysis planning guide step by step, from identifying the rhetorical situation to analyzing devices and effects. Reflect on one step of the rhetorical analysis process that helped you understand the process more clearly. Explain what you learned during that step and how it improved your ability to analyze a speaker’s message.

 Prompt Response: Identifying the rhetorical device helped me understand everything the most. This essentially broke down what the author was saying through devices such as metaphor, simile, and analogies. This breakdown of the topics through use of rhetorical devices helped me to understand the overall point being made by the author/speaker.

Summary: Today we learned about the steps to completing a rhetorical analysis.

Reflection: Today I learned the steps to the rhetorical analysis and how it helps the audience to understand.

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