Rhetorical Modes

	RHETORICAL MODES
Rhetorical modes	Organization	Voice	Purpose	Style	Content	Audience
Description	Spatial	Voice vary on the purpose of the writer and the feeling he wants to evoke in the reader	Gives sensuous details about people, places, using the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste	Adjectives, artistic and technical style	Action verb, dialogue, descriptive words, chronological order, flash back	Persons interested in the descriptive piece
Narration	Temporal	Voice varies: melancholy, excited, comical, sympathetic towards a specific character	Presents an event to the reader. Answers the question ‘What Happened?’	Artistic narration technical scientific narration, short stories, novels, retelling of history	Action, dynamic verbs, dialogue	Children, teachers, readers
Exposition	Definition, illustration, cause and effect, compare and contrast, analysis, classification, analogy	Formal	To clarify ideas, analyze situations, give instructions, define terms (to inform and to explain)	Technical/scientific exposition Artistic exposition	Analysis, classification, definition, illustration, cause and effect, comparison and contrast	Persons who the writer is trying to inform about a specific topic
Argumentation	At least two claims: a conclusion, grounds which support the conclusion	The voice of the piece will vary depending on the purpose for writing and the audience, it maybe: Authoritative, sympathetic,	To persuade , convince	Logical argument/ technical scientific argument, (reason) persuasion/artistic argument(emotions), generalization	Evidence, facts, authoritative opinion, personal experience, refutation of the counter argument, repetition, rhetorical questions,	Persons who are interesting in the topic, the writer want to enlighten on the topic, persons who can bring about change