Sarah Lay

Blog Post 2

Rhetorical situation is people, events, objects, and relations presenting an exigence which
can be removed. One thing I learned while reading this document was that there will be one
controlling exigence as the organizing principle. One thing I remembered from AP English was
that rhetoric requires an audience, to solve the existing problem. The response to the problem
cant just be any response though, it has to be a fitting response. Many famous
speeches/documents contain rhetorical situation, for instance the Declaration of Independence,
The Gettysburg Address, Churchills Address, or John F. Kennedys Inaugural Address. This
reading wasnt a very interesting one, but it was very helpful. It elaborated more on what
rhetorical situation was and it gave me examples of documents/speeches that used it.