Rhetorical Choices
The author's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
The appeal that deals with the process of reasoning.
What is logos?
The three FRQ's you are going to write.
What are Synthesis, Rhetorical Analysis, and Argument?
The particular choice of words that a writer uses to convey an emotion.
What is diction?
Identify C.H.O.R.E.S.
What is Current Events, History, Our experiences, Reading, Entertainment, Sports/Science
The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.
What is connotation?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
What is juxtaposition?
Thesis Statement Formula
What is Although X, A and B; Therefore Y.
The arrangement of words or phrases in a sentence.
What is syntax?
A memoir about a lawyer from Alabama who takes on the case of Walter McMillian.
What is Just Mercy?
A mild or indirect word or expression used in place of one that might be considered harsh, blunt, or unpleasant.
What is Euphemism?
Attacking the person rather than the argument.
What is ad hominem?
The sentences at the beginning of your essay that addresses the author's purpose and rhetorical choices that achieve that purpose.
What is a rhetorical precis?
Three DEAD words
What is said, shows, uses, paints a picture, formal, informal.
Playwright who wrote an allegory about the Salem Witch Trials in 1692?
Who is Arthur Miller?
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole is used to represent a part.
What is Synecdoche?
This fallacy reasons that if everyone is doing something, you probably should be doing it as well.
What is bandwagon?
The task of gathering multiple sources to refine and support your position.
What is synthesizing/synthesis?
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly." - from "The Dead" by James Joyce
What is alliteration?
Who said, “The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
Who is Chris McCandless?
This rhetorical device involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences, often used to build momentum and emphasize a central idea. An example can be found in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is an Anaphora?
A speaker using this rhetorical appeal might cite their years of experience, professional background, or moral character to gain the audience’s trust and establish credibility.
What is Ethos?
The total amount of time to write all three of the FRQ's.
What is 135 minutes / 2 hours and 15 minutes
In analyzing a text, this term refers to the interaction between speaker, purpose audience, context, and exigence. (No, it's not SPACECAT).
What is the rhetorical situation?
In The Great Gatsby, this "Egg" represents new money—flashy, less refined wealth—while its counterpart across the bay symbolizes old money, tradition, and inherited social status.
What are West Egg and East Egg?