Rhetorical Analysis

rhetoric
example, definition, comparison-contrast, classification, process analysis, description, narrative, cause-and-effect, assertion/justification

style
diction, syntax, tone, connotation, figurative language

is diction mostly formal or informal?
polysyllabic? scientific? scholarly? conversational? colloquial? slang?
short or long sentences? meandering/terse?
punctuation?
how does the punctuation establish relationships among ideas within the sentences?
is there cataloguing of information? is the tone mostly serious or mostly playful? what emotions do you sense from the writer? is the language mostly literal or metaphorical? do the metaphors use positive or negative imagery?

rhetorical devices
metonymy, synedoche, apostrophe, anaphora, cataphora, polysyndeton, asyndeton, chiasmus, diacope, allusion, parallel structure, repetition

devices: metaphor, point of view, tone, mood, symbols, irony