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THE BIG Five

This piece explores the fundamental components of persuasive writing, focusing on audience, purpose, content, and theme. It examines the ideal target audience, considering age, gender, and cultural background, and delves into the intent behind the piece, whether to inform, entertain, persuade, or reveal. The analysis highlights the speaker's tone, the emotions evoked in the audience, the diction used, and the literary devices employed, such as imagery and irony. Additionally, it discusses how structure and formatting influence the overall message and impact on readers.

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THE BIG Five

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  1. THE BIG Five Audience/Purpose Content (Subject) and Theme Tone/Mood Stylistic Devices and Techniques Structure

  2. Audience and Purpose • Who is the target for the particular piece? age, gender, cultural background • What is the purpose/intent of the piece? inform, entertain, persuade, reveal

  3. Content and Theme • What is the content of the text? • What is the background of the content/particular area of the text? • What is the message or point which is being conveyed?

  4. Tone and Mood • What is the attitude of the speaker? sympathetic, compassionate, frustrated, confident, angered, cautious, biased… • How does the content make the audience or reader feel? guilty, angered, sympathetic, elated

  5. Stylistic Devices or Techniques • What type of diction does the speaker use and how does that impact the tone, mood and message? • What literary devices are employed to create meaning, mood, message? figurative language, imagery, irony, allusion? • How might the conventions assist in creating meaning, tone, purpose, etc.?

  6. Structure/format • How has the text been arranged and what effect does it have on the purpose, audience, message? • What type of sentences have been used to convey ethos, logos or pathos? parallelism, rhetorical questions, short vs. long sentences, simple sentences, complex sentences? • Use of transitions? • Any images added to the text? Color? Other visual features?

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