Please number and label each response. Each section should be two to three sentences minimum. Provide specific textual support and analysis for each response.

Describes the topic, content and ideas contained in the text.

Does the speaker/writer explicitly state the subject or is it implied?

Now that you have identified the topic, can you find the
theme?

Discuss the reason(s) the writer/speaker is choosing to approach the topic at this particular moment in time.

Is the writer/speaker reacting to a specific event or person?

What event or circumstance prompted this text? You may need to speculate on the circumstance.
If you have time, do some research.

Discuss how the OCCASION is revealed in the passage.

Discuss to whom this piece is directed.

How do you know who the audience is?

How is the audience defined?

Discuss how the speaker/writer demonstrates understanding of the audience and how he or she uses that understanding to accomplish his or her goals.

Argues the purpose of the text (the reason behind writing it). General reasons include: to entertain, to
inform, to persuade, to instruct, to confess, to apologize, to attack, to clarify, to confuse, etc.

Identify at least one specific action expected of the audience.

Discuss how the purpose is revealed in the passage

Discuss the authority and credibility of the speaker/writer.

How does the speaker establish his or her ethos in the passage?

Discuss the specific ways that the speaker/writer helps to define him or herself as a trustworthy and/or qualified messenger?

Analyze the attitude of the speaker/writer.

Tone extends meaning beyond the literal.

Find tone in the author's diction, syntax, structure and imagery.

Give specifics of the tone of the author and discuss how the tone affects the effectiveness of the passage.

Use your list of tone words to pinpoint the specific tone(s) of the piece.