Identify all five elements of Burke’s Dramatist Pentad: Act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose.
Watch an entire episode of your favorite sitcom. With this episode, apply Burke’s Dramatist to determine the motive of speakers. Take one scene and identify all five elements of Burke’s Dramatist Pentad: Act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose. Explain. Using the pentad, determine why the speaker selected rhetorical strategy to identify with the audience. (The … Read more