Aristotle's Triangle of Rhetoric

Reading "Judging Distances" reminds us of Aristotle's triangle of rhetoric, so we calibrate this model to represent the relationships in tone and attitude between the reader and the text (in place of audience we imagine text, in place of voice we imagine reader, and we keep the attitude to the subject unaltered). We then apply the model to the narrative--that is, we adjust the triangle according to the narrative's "orders," with the following results:
 

Lines 1-20:
 
 

Lines 21-27:
 

Lines 27-42:

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