Explain it

ch10 — 1 short write-up

A checkpoint, not a test

Explain rhetorical distance

A few sentences in your own words.

What is rhetorical distance, and how can a writer create intimacy versus formal distance with an audience? Name at least one specific tool from the chapter and say how it changes the distance.

Start with what rhetorical distance is (a felt closeness/formality from language choices). Then give one lever — grammatical person or register — and say which direction it pulls.