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Question 1: What rhetorical tools are most important in supporting the thesis?
Question 2: Who is the audience for the text? What kinds of appeals and strategies will the audience expect?
Question 3: How does the audience and context (publication, exigence, cultural context) influence the primary strategies the author chose to use in the text? How are the strategies appropriate (or not) for the audience?
Question 3: How does the author of the text show that they are listening to different perspectives or opposing positions?
Question 4: How does the context (publication, intended audience, exigence, cultural context) influence how the text is read and the kinds of strategies the author uses?
Question 5: Where does the text reference other texts that audiences might know, either directly or through allusions to titles, forms, or famous ideas or scenes?
Question 6: What is the subtext? What do you learn by "reading between the lines" and/or looking for hidden assumptions that need to be called out?