What is the best four-step process before assigning a rhetorical label in this lesson?

Supplementary Practice 13: Attribution, Quotation and Evidential Restraint in Rhetorical Analysis

• Start with a device and select only supporting clues afterward
• Identify the proposition, parse syntax, locate the audience’s question, then test the decisive clue
• Rely on syntax while excluding the audience and implied question
• Classify concision and expansion by word count alone