Rhetorical Situation
Person or persona who wrote the essay
Establishes the character and credibility of the writer
What is ethos?
An implied comparison between two unlike things:
"Everyday is a winding road."
What is a metaphor?
Showing a contrast between elements in order to show the higher importance of one
What is juxtaposition?
A personal story used as evidence
What is an anecdote?
The occasion surrounding the speech/essay.
What is context?
Presentation of facts or objective information
What is logos?
Attributing human qualities to an abstract idea or an inanimate object.
What is personification?
A question posed by the speaker which has an obvious answer
What is a rhetorical question?
Evidence found in movies, books, songs, etc. (category)
What is pop culture?
The intended and/or unintended reader/listener of the essay/speech.
Who is the audience?
Connecting to and inciting the audience's emotions
What is pathos?
An intentional exaggeration for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
The intentional emphasis on structure of a sentence or phrase.
What is syntax?
Evidence found in graphs and charts.
What is empirical evidence? OR What are statistics?
The intended result of giving a speech/essay.
What is purpose?
Emphasizing deadlines or a time crunch
What is Kairos?
What is connotation?
The use of many conjunctions.
What is polysyndeton?
Acronym for possible synthesis essay factors
What is $SEEITT?
The immediate reason the speaker had to give the speech
Errors in reasoning that undermine the logic of your argument.
What are logical fallacies?
Repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
What is anaphora?
The accumulated and implied attitude of the speaker toward the subject
What is tone?
Acronym for argument essay evidence categories
What is CHORES?