Rhetoric
The three rhetorical appeals.
What are logos, pathos, and ethos?
Important to include to signal a shift in focus, as in, between paragraphs.
What are the transitions?
A proposal that relies heavily on strong emotional reactions.
What is appeal to emotion/ pathos?
A person smoking in front of a non-smoking sign
What is irony?
Finish the sentence. Synthesis is still ____________.
What is an argument?
A question not answered by the writer because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no.
What is a rhetorical question?
Addressing the objections of an argument to convince your audience that your arguments are sound?
What is a counterargument/Refutation?
"Now I'm guilt stricken, sobbing with my head on the floor, stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice."
What is pathos?
"He asked for her hand in marriage" is an example.
What is metonymy (or synecdoche)?
Statements that may sound reasonable or true but are deceptive or dishonest.
What are logical fallacies?
a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule
What is satire?
Examples from outside the passages--real‐life examples, whether personal, historical, or literary, are not only encouraged but necessary.
What is evidence?
Indeed, even Steve Barr, the founder of Green Dot Public Schools lauded by "Waiting for Superman" as one of the leaders of the charter school movement, is vocally pro-union. In fact, all 17 of his charter schools are fully unionized, and the one in Bronx opened as a result of direct collaboration between Green Dot and the AFT."
What is ethos?
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France" is an example.
What is anaphora?
the speed at which a piece of writing moves along
What is pacing?
SOAPSTone
What is speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and tone?
To defend, challenge or qualify, also means to
What is agree, disagree, or agree with limitations?
"It used to be that machines automated work, giving us more time to do other things, but now machines automate the production of attention-consuming information, which takes our time. For example, if one person sends the same e-mail message to ten people, then ten people (in theory) should give it their attention. And that's a low-end example."
What is logos?
historical, literary, religious, or mythical references
What are allusions?
Besides "Advanced Placement," AP stands for.
What is "Answer the Prompt"
An essay that takes the author’s purpose + appeals/strategies
What is a rhetorical analysis?
Argues, claims, asserts, commands, interrupts, challenges, scolds...
What are stronger verbs for said?
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more devine in the lapse of all the ages."
What is ethos?
Though my mother says it doesn't matter, I am tall, and she is short.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
An ancillary piece of information printed at the bottom of a page.
What are footnotes?