Christine Yang's ENG2100

In “The Rhetorical situation” by Bitzer, the author argues about what is an rhetorical situation and to argue his point Bitzer questions the rhetorical situation, “what is a rhetorical situation?” (1). Bitzer then define the aspects that make up a rhetorical situation; he says that a rhetorical situation is “a natural context of persons, events, objects, relations, and an exigence which strongly invites utterance” (5). Then to prove his point he names and describes the three aspects of an rhetorical situation; exigence, audience and constraints. Bitzer then clarifies his point by describing and defining how these three aspects affect the rhetorical situation.

After reading the “The Rhetorical Situation” I felt that this article does point out the facts and details of a rhetorical situation and I from this article i felt as if i have learned parts of what a rhetorical situation is but in the same time the work confused me. what I mainly understood from the work Bitzer wrote was the three aspects of the rhetorical situation: the exigence, audience and constraints.

When is the rhetorical situation most effective and why?

Emma Watson’s Speech About Feminism

The Exigence of this piece is feminism and how people do not treat women the same as men. The Audience of this article is for women and men because the article quoted what Emma Watson said and her speech was for both women and men. The Constraints of this piece is the fact that this article seems to be for Feminism and the article must be able to appeal to the audience.