Part 1: Select a controversial current topic and describe the literal audience and the rhetorical audience for speeches addressing each audience. What would be the focus for both speeches? Part 2: Then give feedback to another student about his or her focus. What was useful? What would you add to either the literal audience or the rhetorical audience speech? Solution Literal audiences refer to those who heard the message by being there. Rhetorical audience refers to intended audience under an optimistic goal. A controversial topic these days is the move of the trump to move the US Embassy to the Jerusalem (A controversial area). On Wednesday 6th December 2017 1:20 PM, Available at: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/06/trump-announces-u-s-will-recognize-jerusalem- as-israels-capital.html The literal audience in the speech was the press reporters and the public who was watching live speech. The Rhetorical audience in this case was the world leaders..