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Rhetoric

five key terms, act, scene, agent, agency and purpose, used to analyse how any account of human motives is built.

In rhetoric, dramatistic pentad refers to five key terms, act, scene, agent, agency and purpose, used to analyse how any account of human motives is built. This meaning comes from Burke (1945) in A grammar of motives.[1]

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Burke, K. (1945). A grammar of motives. Prentice-Hall. Open Library record

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