rhetorical situation

In the article the rehtorical situation there is a discussion of how embarassing and dangerous situations are characteristics and questioning the context for creating the rehtorical. Some important terms are audience, speaker, subject, speech and ocacasion. One particular part of the essay that I enjoyed was the comparision of the rhetoric situation through the metaphor of the tree and the rehtoric situation, and then states of the analogy of moral action being a better metaphor next to a tree, however the tree was rather a descriptive and reminded me of nature. I enjoy nature quite a bit, and reading that section of the essay would remind me of hiking and skiing, as well of other nature activities, even more so coming across the the descriptive paragraph of the Trobiand Islands. The description of the canoe reminded me of the yearly canoe and camping trips I take with my family friends. We would go to the Shennendoah, and camp next to the river bank, then get dropped off 11 miles up stream and canoe all the way back to the camp ground. But anyways, back to the rhetorical situation essay I took away what rhetoric means. I learned that it means that it comes into exsistence like an answer is a response to a question, that there must be a need for it before it can exist. This need is called exigence, or the problem the rhetoric needs. Exigence is very important to the rhetoric situation as well as the audience. The audience is key but the key to the audience is the need to know who the audience is before an arguement is made so the speaker can apeal to the audience. The next key term is the speech, and over all the situation controls the rhetorical response.