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Rhetorical Situation

Rhetorical Situation

Q What are the five elements of the rhetorical situation? Then choose one part to elaborate and why you think it is the most important part?

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Five elements in a rhetorical situation are text, reader, author, constraints, and exigencies. Bitzer has defined these five elements in the rhetorical situation and together these are called TRACE. The text can be perceived as the argument. There are different types of text employing the different characteristics in the form of essay, letter, book, website, and debate. Reader scrutinizes the text and the rhetorical situation takes this chance to invite the audience to respond in the specific context. The author is the main stimulus who creates the argument to convince the particular type of audience. Constraints attribute the beliefs, ideas, prejudices, interests in a situation in a particular way. Constraints may bring the author and audience much close and sometimes it can drift them apart. Exigencies are the indicators of the situations which definitely shed light on something argumentative or debatable.