The Four Corners of Style Author Audience Occasion Topic Consider the following prose sample. Describe what it tells us about each of the 4 corners. Tech-cares is a venture philanthropy initiative, delivering positive social change by harnessing the same entrepreneurial drive that makes our state such a successful incubator for technology companies. Written by and for tech types. Written about human suffering, justice, culture, etc., though you cannot glimpse this through the rhetorical haze.
Occasion is sudden wealth.
Occasion is the ascendancy thereof. Topic is how to gain an advantage by giving. Ethos is self-involvement, callow complacency, bumptious ignorance. Analogy Forget rhetoric. You all pass.