Describe the Basic Steps Common to Doing Any Form of Rhetorical

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Essay

Describe the basic steps common to doing any form of rhetorical criticism. Then give an example of how you would apply those steps from a narrative analysis approach.

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Definitions:

Proposition

An expression or proclamation that signifies a belief or conclusion, which may be valid or not.

Obverse

The statement formed by negating both the subject and predicate of a given categorical proposition and changing the quality from affirmative to negative, or vice versa.

Proposition

In philosophy, a content of thought expressed in language or symbols that can be analyzed as either true or false.

Converse

In logic, a statement formed by reversing the antecedent and consequent in a conditional statement; if the original statement is "If P, then Q," the converse is "If Q, then P."