Oct 30: A Grammar of Motives (311-20; 323-43; 402-46, “Dialectic in General”; Appendices: “Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats” and “Four Master Tropes”)
Suggested Reading Response Prompt: In "Four Master Tropes,” Burke explains the function of each. Choose one of the tropes, and explain how his distinctions help you understand it better or might help us understand rhetoric better. Tag: tropes
Nov 1: A Rhetoric of Motives (Introduction thru Part 1)