It appears, and I might be wrong here, that by adding “portray” to the Ciceronian offices Burke seems to be attempting to insert the agent in to rhetorical act. According to Burke, the three offices of Cicero are: “The first office (docere) would be the indicative or scientific function of speech, its relation to matters of knowledge. The third office (movere) would be the persuasive or rhetorical function of speech, its use to arouse in an auditor some attitude that implies a desired kind of act or acquiescence in a desired kind of policy. The second office, to please or entertain (delectare), must, for our purposes, be redefined” (ETSM 37). Notice from this definition of terms that there is no consideration for the author of the product and all three definitions deal with the product itself or the product’s audience (notice that it is the function of speech rather than the function of the speech’s generator that does the persuading in the definition). Additional, as Burke explains, “Logic, as the orderly generalizing of observed ‘facts,’ would lean toward the office of docere; insofar as logic appeals by reason of our delight in the sheer exercising of its own internal resources, it would lean toward the office of delectare; and the office of movere, of persuasion, would be provided by the ‘cogency’ of the maxims in guiding the reader to the desired conclusions” (ETSM 41). Adding the term “portray’ then adds the agent to the act within a given scene, or “We refer to the utterance as ‘portraiture,’ as the ‘self-expression’ of an agent, as an act characteristic of the poet’s “personality” ‘whether or not he so wills it’” (ESTM 41) and “Personality so viewed is a kind of “congealed conduct.” Insofar as an act is representative (or “symbolic”) of an agent, that act is the manifestation of some underlying “moral principle” in the agent” (ESTM 44). What we get then from Burke’s fourth office is an additional vehicle for interpretation, where we can now examine a rhetorical act and formulate interpretations of personal motivation or try to generate understandings for what personally let the author to construct the act or to understand why the construction of a text might simply be the need to express an emotion the author feels she needs to share. I’m not sure if I’m on the right track here, so I will stop for know and ask everyone else to help in this.