Objective: Remember that any time we try to convince someone else of something, that is an argument. Characters in Shakespeare’s The Tempest are constantly trying to persuade one another to do things, think things, stop doing things, etc. All of these conversations between characters can be thought of as arguments, too! This assignment will help you both to think critically about the arguments various characters (Prospero, Caliban, Ariel, Antonio, etc.) make on a variety of topics in The Tempest and to practice identifying the various persuasive/rhetorical terms we’ve covered so far in class.