An Occasion for Persuasion
The various basic methods of persuading an audience are known by this name:
Rhetorical appeals
A writer's consideration of their audience's emotions, values, and needs will dictate the ratio of these 3 things in their text:
Pathos, Logos, and Ethos
Aligning your evidence or sources with your audience's values helps to gain this:
Your audience's trust/Credibility with your audience
A text's thesis is the expression of the writer's...
Main Claim
A strong thesis statement is built by gathering and arranging this two-word phrase:
Sufficient Evidence
This persuasive method plays on the audience's base psychological responses
Pathos
This rhetorical appeal has an outsized effect on the other two
Logos
A writer who uses specific cases to indicate a general trend is using evidence to do this:
Exemplify
The smaller sub-claims that support a thesis are sometimes known by this term:
Reasons
A claim about a writer's use of language and evidence is made in response to this type of essay prompt:
Rhetorical Analysis
The effects of this persuasive method tend to have a bigger impact long-term:
Logos
An advanced rhetorical move that can help a writer relate to their audience is the strategic selection of this:
Evidence
A piece or collection of evidence that affects the general emotional feeling the audience walks away with is doing this:
Setting a mood
A thesis will often (but not always) do this for the reader:
Preview the argument's structure
If you already know your position on a topic, you may want to build your thesis this way:
Claim-First
You can invoke this persuasive method by demonstrating your understanding of the topic at hand:
Ethos
A writer primarily achieves a purpose with their text by relating to their audience's...
Emotions, Values, and Needs
A piece of evidence that "illustrates" does this for the audience:
Provides details to make an abstract or unfamiliar concept more concrete
A thesis statement will often be complex, and include a clause that acknowledges this sophisticated part of an argument:
Nuance
The "Synthesis" essay prompt will ask you do accomplish this task:
Combine information from various provided sources to create and support a claim about the provided topic.
This diagram exists mainly to visualize the relationship between the 3 methods of persuasion
The Rhetorical Triangle
When discussing a rhetorical appeal a writer uses in their text, you must remember to explicitly include these 3 things:
The rhetorical appeal being used, what the writer is doing to invoke the appeal, and direct textual evidence
School subjects, Society, Self
Determining a text's thesis can be done by finding the one claim that is ___________ by most other claims in the text.
Logically supported
You know the quality and quantity of your evidence is approaching "sufficient" status when you can start to see this:
A clear pattern of information supporting a claim or position