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作者高级词汇积累做的很棒，但有个别拼写错误；作者句法知识扎实，但文中从句数量稍显不足；文章采用了适当的过渡词和衔接词，结构比较严谨。
The dramatistic pentad forms the core structure of dramatism, it is a method for examining motivations that the renowned literary critic Kenneth Burke developed. Dramatism recommends the use of a metalinguistic approach to stories about human action that investigate the roles and uses of five rhetorical elements common to all narratives, each of which is related to a question. These five rhetorical elements form the "dramatistic pentad." Burke argues that an evaluation of the relative emphasis that is given to each of the five elements by a human drama enables a determination of the motive for the behaviour of its characters. A character's stress on one element over the others suggests their world view. Burke created the pentad by combining several of the categories in the scholastic hexameter. The result was a pentad that has the five categories of: act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose. The pentad is also closed to the five 'Five Ws': who, what, when, where, why. The five elements are conducive to the analysis of films and television programs. 'Who' maps to agent. 'What' maps to action. 'When' and 'Where' map to scene. 'Why' maps to purpose. In 2012, Geoff Hart pointed out that some authorizes added the sixth question“how”to the theory, but the “how to” analysis is based on other five questions. The five rhetorical elements: Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, and Purpose were comprised by the dramatistic pentad. “Act” is associated with the world view of realism. The Scene is associated with the setting of an act and is related to the world view of materialism and minimal or non-existent free will. Agent is associated with “by whom?” and related to the world view of philosophical idealism. “Agency” answers the question “how? The agency was defined as “what instrument or instruments he used by Bruke. Besides, the purpose is related to the question “why?” and reflects the world view of mysticism. The purpose ids regarded as the subject of analysis and an element of the dramastistic pentad. Actually, every element is related to each other, which means that we can try to create a ratio and produce individual. Thus, the there types of ratio haveeen indicated: Scene-act ratio, scene –agent ratio and the act-agent ratio. The scene –act is a principle of drama that the nature of acts and agnents should be consistent with the nature of the scene. Scene-agent or act- agent ratio reflects the same principle as the scene- act does. Excepted that mentioned above, Bruke has mentioned that attitude is “ a state of mind ”,remaining exterior form the pentad. However, whether the attitude can be added to the dramatistic pentad, many scholars still think that attitude is a derivative of agent.
