Question 12 of 22 Which element is the most basic part of a speech's rhetorical situation?
A. The symbolism
B. The theme
O C. The structure
O D. The message
SUBMIT

D - The message

Explanation:

Sometimes Rhetorical Questions are just obvious or sarcastic, do understanding the message is a very important component.

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Explanation:

A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985.[1] The worst famine to hit the country in a century,[2] it left 1.2 million dead. 400,000 refugees left the country, and 2.5 million people were internally displaced. Almost 200,000 children were orphaned.[3][4]

According to Human Rights Watch, more than half its mortality could be attributed to "human rights abuses causing the famine to come earlier, strike harder and extend further than would otherwise have been the case".[5] Other areas of Ethiopia experienced famine for similar reasons, resulting in tens of thousands of additional deaths.[5] The famine as a whole took place a decade into the Ethiopian Civil War.[6]

The famine of 1983–85 is most often ascribed to drought and climatic phenomena. However, Human Rights Watch has alleged that widespread drought occurred only some months after the famine was under way.[7] According to the organisation, and Oxfam UK, the famines that struck Ethiopia between 1961 and 1985, and in particular the one of 1983–85, were in large part created by government policies, specifically a set of so-called counter-insurgency strategies (against Tigray People's Liberation Front guerrilla-soldiers), and for "social transformation" in non-insurgent areas (against people of Tigray province, Welo province and such