Module 2: Section A

Section Objectives

After you have completed this section, you will be able to:

1. Identify themes, values, and ideas that reflect the historical period in which a literary text was written.
2. Analyze the purposes for writing in a variety of texts.
3. Identify rhetorical devices in passages, speeches, platforms, debates, and statements.
4. Analyze documents based on the rhetorical devices used.