1. Subject: What is (briefly) happening in your assigned scene?
2. Occasion: All writers are influenced by the larger occasion: an environment of ideas, attitudes, and emotions that swirl around a broad issue. What are the rhetorical occasions in your scene? Are there visions, memories, debates, monologues, jesting, and/or fighting within your scene?
3. Audience: To whom is this scene directed? Who was the audience of Shakespeare's plays?
4. Purpose: Why do you think Shakespeare included this scene in the play? What is the purpose of the scene in the larger context of the play as a whole?
5. Speaker: The voice that tells the story. Which characters are in your scene and what are their roles in the scene. In their dialogue, what literary devices and figurative language do you notice? Describe them! Metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification? Irony? Symbolism?
6. Tone: What is the attitude or vibe of the scene? Is it humorous, suspenseful, gloomy, exciting, or a combination of both? (Later in your essay, you will comment on how you've interpreted and even changed the tone in your re-creation of the scene.)
