During the phase of the writing process, the writer analyzes the audience and the purpose for writing.

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?

Why is it important to be aware of you audience's interests? a. so that you can teach them new information thy didn't know b. so that you can use opposite ideas in order to shock them c. so that you can use the most effective strategy to persuade them d. so that you can pretend to like the same things and get them to trust you

This dust was once the manthis dust was once the man, gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, was saved the union of these states walt whitman who is "the man" the dust now represents? the narrator a criminal whitman lincoln