Rhetorical Analysis Of Lloyd Bitzer's Thinking In Pictures

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Bitzer expounds that you must have three elements for a situation to be rhetorical. These elements include an exigence, audience and constraints (Convino and Jolliffe). Exigence is simply a problem that prompts someone to write, usually a problem that causes the writer anger or sadness; something they would change. Bitzer verbalizes that the audience is not just people who read the book for no reason, but people who read the book because they too are concerned about the exigence (Convino and Jolliffe). Our last element to having a rhetorical situation is the constraints. A constraint according to Bitzer are conceptions and notions that the audience may have about the

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