What are the three necessary elements of a rhetorical situation?

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Precious Olson

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31 March, 02:10

What are the three necessary elements of a rhetorical situation?

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Julia Warren · Answer 1

A rhetorical situation is the context of a rhetorical act, made up (at a minimum) of a rhetor (a speaker or writer), an issue (or exigence), a medium (such as a speech or a written text), and an audience.

Mainly, the exigence, which is the issue, the audience, and a set of constraints (are parts of the situation because they have the power to constrain decision and action needed to modify the issue)