In the article entitled “Rhetorical situations and their constituents” Keith Grant-Davie discusses the makeup of rhetorical situations. He describes rhetorical situations as “a set of related factors whose interaction creates and controls discourse.” Rhetorical situations are made up of many parts with these parts being referred to as constituents. Constituents are ideas or rules that limit the scope of the writer or speaker and in the text, Grant-Davie discusses four of them. The first constituent is exigence, without exigence there is no purpose for communication. Exigence is the reason for rhetoric and in turn, it leads to debate and debate is the entire purpose of a rhetorical piece. According to Grant-Davie exigence is “what the
