Rhetorical Strategies
Effective speaking or writing
What is rhetoric
The message; The meaning; The main idea
What is central idea
Making an educated guess based on the information given
What is an inference; What is to infer
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words in order to add emphasis or signify importance
What is alliteration
An argument deemed correct because it's correlated with some past event
What is an appeal to common practice
An appeal to the audience's emotions
What is pathos
The author's attitude toward their audience and subject
What is tone
facts and details only
What is objective
A good way to say something harsh
What is an euphemism
A lack of evidence is taken to be evidence
What is an appeal to ignorance
An appeal that establishes the author/speaker's credibility and/or authority
What is ethos
The emotional vibe the audience get's from a work
What is mood
The emotional association with a word
What is connotation
The conscious and purposeful replication of words or phrases in order to make a point or to add emphasis
What is repetition
A conclusion about a population that is based on a sample that isn't large enough
What is a hasty generalization
An appeal that uses logic or reasoning
What is logos
Word choice
What is diction
The three main goals an author can have when writing
What is to entertain, to inform, and to persuade
An interrupting word or phrase which adds emphasis to the words/phrases before or after it
What is an expletive
One event causes another just because the proposed event occurred before the proposed effect
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc
The specific approach(s) or strategy(ies) a speaker or writer uses to achieve a purpose
What are rhetorical strategies
An author's goal in writing; Their reason for writing
What is author's purpose; What is purpose
The author's, writer's, or audience's perspective
What is Point of view
A question, asked for emphasis, that is not meant to be answered because the answer is obvious or already known
What is a rhetorical question
An argument to evade or divert attention from a topic discussed
What is a red herring