Rhetorical Devices
SPACECAT stands for Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence, Choices, Appeals, and this.
What is Tone?
The type of appeal that uses logic and reason.
What is logos?
This mode of writing focuses on explaining how an author builds an argument.
What is rhetorical analysis?
This is the best way to approach difficult vocabulary in context.
What is using context clues?
The synthesis essay requires using this many sources.
What is at least 3?
In a speech, the author repeats the phrase "We shall..." at the start of several sentences. What effect does this have on the audience?
What is it emphasizes unity and determination (anaphora)?
Anecdotes and examples are forms of this kind of evidence.
What is qualitative evidence?
SPACECAT stands for Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence, Choices, Appeals, and this.
What is Tone?
On the multiple choice section, you should always eliminate these.
What are wrong answer choices?
The acronym "CHORES" helps structure this type of writing.
What is argumentative writing?
A writer uses informal language and first-person pronouns in an essay. What rhetorical effect does this create?
What is it builds a conversational tone and establishes rapport with the audience?
This fallacy assumes one event causes another simply because it happened first.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc? (Faulty Causality)
The term for the use of multiple strategies to appeal to different audiences.
What is rhetorical flexibility?
These questions ask about the writer’s attitude or tone.
What are rhetorical analysis questions?
A good thesis statement must be this.
What is arguable/defensible?
In an op-ed, the author uses a short, abrupt sentence after several long ones. How does this affect the reader?
What is it creates emphasis or surprise through a shift in sentence length (syntax)?
The three main components of the rhetorical triangle.
What are speaker, audience, and subject?
The paragraph structure that includes a topic sentence, evidence, and commentary.
What is a rhetorical analysis body paragraph?
The best strategy if you're unsure of an answer.
What is make an educated guess (no penalty for wrong answers)?
In the rhetorical analysis essay, you must analyze this, not summarize.
What is the author’s rhetorical choices/strategies?
A speaker sarcastically refers to a disaster as "a wonderful success." What rhetorical strategy is being used, and why?
What is verbal irony, used to criticize or highlight failure indirectly?
The Toulmin model term for the general principle linking evidence to claim.
What is a warrant?
The term for examining the choice of words in rhetorical analysis.
What is diction?
The term for how sentence structure affects meaning.
What is syntax?
The final step in the writing process that refines and strengthens your essay.
What is revision/editing?