Question

Help with my English chart?

I need the purpose, occasion, genre, and audience of the following authors:

Thomas Jefferson, Olaudah Equiano, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and Phyllis Wheatley

But I don't even understand what occasion is, and I don't know how to find purpose and audience.

I would really appreciate any help at all. Thanks!

Answer 1

Occasion is why the author started writing it in the first place. Like, I wanted to write about leaves today because I was so busy crunching them. Olaudah Equiano wrote about slavery because people didn't know about it, and as a slave he had a unique perspective. Purpose is why an author wrote about it, why it was important to him. I think you can figure that out for most of these authors. Audience is who the author wrote it for. Equiano wrote for the upperclass, people who thought slavery was harmless and humane.