Snow White Rhetorical Analysis

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Snow White was listening(102) carefully to the woodsman's message, as she was sensing(102), understanding( 102), evaluating( 102), and responding( 102), to what he was saying. Snow White understood what he said because she knew she was in danger. She responded by questioning what he was saying, seeing as, she was in shock and had not previously know her stepmother's intentions of murdering her. There were many different types of listening styles( 106) used during the conversation;Snow White used action-oriented listening( 106) and time-oriented listening( 107) because there was not any time to waste since she was in danger. She also used informational listening and content-oriented listening as she had to pay attention to the content of

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