Describe the process of identification and explain its importance in the rhetorical situation.

What will be an ideal response?


- Identification refers to the common ground speakers try to find between what they know about the audience and what they want to say in the speech.
- This common bond creates a link between the speaker and the audience.
- A speaker may avoid identification if they wish to antagonize the audience as they attempt to persuade them.
- Sometimes audience members incorporate what they speaker wants them to but at other times they may be skeptical of this common ground.

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