Rhetorical Precis Sample

SOAPSTONE:

Subject: choices; different paths; taking risk; career
Evidence: Line 19 Stanza 4: And I took the one less traveled by
Occasion: In the woods
Stanza 1 Line Two roads..

Audience: Everybody

Purpose: Taking risks are worth it in the end; Do not be afraid to take risks and do what others have not
Stanza 4 Line 20-And that..
Speaker: Robert Frost
Stanza 4 line I shsall be..
Tone: hopeful; inspirational; motivational

Rhetorical Precis:
Robert Frost, in the poem The Road Not Taken, explains that taking risks are necessary in life. Frost support his explanation by life decisions using a metaphor of a road split in the woods. The authors purpose is to tell the readers that taking risks are worth it in the end. The author writes in an inspirational tone for everyone.

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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