( You can use the othello book)
Choose two of the speeches listed below, identify the rhetorical situation (occasion, speaker, audience, purpose), and write an essay analyzing the speaker’s use of language appropriate to the rhetorical situation. In your analysis, identify and refer to specific language choices and rhetorical strategies the speaker makes to develop his or her appeal. Your audience for your essay will be your classmates.
Choose two passages by the same speaker, one early in the play and one later, identify the rhetorical situation (occasion, speaker, audience, purpose), and write an essay exploring how the speaker’s language changes and what those changes might suggest about changes in his or her situation. In your analysis, identify and refer to specific language choices and rhetorical strategies the speaker uses. Your audience for your essay will be your classmates.
Othello
Act 1, scene 3, lines 91-111
Act 1, scene 3, lines 149-196
Act 2, scene 1, lines 199-209 and 213-217
Act 3, scene 4, lines 65-79 and 81-87
Act 4, scene 2, lines 57-74
Act 5, scene 2, ll. 397-417
Desdemona
Act 1, scene 3 lines 209-218 and 283-294
Act 3, scene 3, lines 68-82 and 85-92
Act 4, scene 2, lines 175-193
Cassio
Act 2, scene 1, lines 82-96
Act 3, scene 4, lines 128-140
Iago
Act 1, scene 3, lines 361-375 and 377-404
Act 2, scene 1, lines 242-270
Act 2, scene 3, lines 235-261
Act 3, scene 3, lines 170-180 and 182-190
Act 3, scene 3, lines 224-236
Act 3, scene 3, lines 285-296
Act 3, scene 3, lines 468-482
Act 4, scene 1, lines 91-106
Once you have chosen the prompt you will respond to, circle all the verbs in the prompt. These tell you what you need to do in order to successfully complete the assignment. Then, briefly analyze your rhetorical situation. If your audience for your essay is your classmates, what is your purpose? You have all read the play and participated in many of the same activities during the module. What additional value(s) do you hope to offer them as you share your thinking?
