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Title: Rhetorical Square Breakdown For Sonnet 18
Description: A break down of sonnet 18 in terms of audience, purpose, argument, message, persona, and rhetorical devices.

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His audience pertains directly to the women he is writing about her because it
is all about her but indirectly is for his audiences everywhere because a main
message that is derived from the passage is that Shakespeare's writing is long
lasting and shall never fade away
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Purpose
a
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He begins by making a comparison that doesn't describe her
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Furthermore, he
arrives at a final point that she shall never lose her beauty because it will be
long lasting through his writing
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Argument or Message
a
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By his writing never dying, his lover’s beauty will continue on forever
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Persona
a
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Through the sonnet, this persona is kept forever demonstrating his love for her
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Rhetorical Devices (Was not a box)
i
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He is comparing his love to a summer's day
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He continues his thought in line two and basically says his love is
more temperate and desirable than the summer
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In line 5, Shakespeare refers to the sun as the “eye of heaven”, by doing so,
he heightens the level of the sun and makes his writing captivating
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The speaker personifies nature throughout the sonnet, like in line 11
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As the whole poem is
about the sun and enjoying the weather of the summer, the audience can
conclude that shade and anywhere death wants to bring us is ultimately bad
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In lines 7-8, he mentions how nature’s course is so unsteady but she should
rest assured because nature cannot deter his writing in anyway
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Title: Rhetorical Square Breakdown For Sonnet 18
Description: A break down of sonnet 18 in terms of audience, purpose, argument, message, persona, and rhetorical devices.