S Subject: Winter wildlife.
T Theme: The seclusion in the wilderness, especially during winter, can enhance aspects of the environment’s wildlife an individual may have absentmindedly ignored. However, when an individual pays attention, the winter wildlife appeals to the human senses, primarily the auditory sense.
A Audience: Individuals curious with the Walden wildlife.
A Attitude: Calm, meditative, informative.
RS Rhetorical Strategy: Onomatopoeia
“ One had her form under my house all winter, separated from me only by the flooring, and she startled me each morning by her hasty departure when I began to stir—thump, thump, thump, striking her head against the floor timbers in her hurry.”
Thoreau’s Walden (1854) Chapter 15- “Winter Animals”,
T Theme: The seclusion in the wilderness, especially during winter, can enhance aspects of the environment’s wildlife an individual may have absentmindedly ignored. However, when an individual pays attention, the winter wildlife appeals to the human senses, primarily the auditory sense.
A Audience: Individuals curious with the Walden wildlife.
A Attitude: Calm, meditative, informative.
RS Rhetorical Strategy: Onomatopoeia
“ One had her form under my house all winter, separated from me only by the flooring, and she startled me each morning by her hasty departure when I began to stir—thump, thump, thump, striking her head against the floor timbers in her hurry.”
Thoreau’s Walden (1854) Chapter 15- “Winter Animals”,