Rhetorical Analysis
Specific things an author or speaker does within a speech or letter with the purpose of influencing the audience
What are rhetorical strategies?
This term means that you both agree and disagree with aspects of an author's assertion/claim/opinion
What is qualify?
These aspects of sources are key words, phrases, or statistics that you can weave easily into your essay
What are quotables?
This answer option is one that is deceptive; it's one that is mostly correct except for one minor flaw or disqualifying word
What is a detractor?
A synthesis essay with 3 sources that support the author's thesis is ___________ to a synthesis essay with 3 sources that support the author's thesis and 1 source that disputes the other sources or the author's thesis.
What is inferior?
Telling the purpose, intended effect, or how a strategy contributes to an author's main goal
What is analysis?
______________ evidence is the type where you speak to your own personal experience and the experiences of those close to you, and while it's ok to have this in your argument essay, it's flawed if it's not combined with evidence and examples of things that are known by the general population
What is anecdotal?
This is the maximum score on evidence and commentary you can achieve without accurately citing 3 of the sources.
What is 1/4?
Many students take their exams in a sequential, linear fashion, but others choose to skip to the questions and immediately ________________________.
These styles of writing can be potential rhetorical strategies. Some examples of them are narration, exemplification, description, and comparison/contrast.
What are rhetorical modes?
Noticing where AND why an author returns to a previous strategy, shifts in strategy, builds immensely on a strategy AND/OR recognizing the complexity of a passage
What is sophistication?
This type of argument structure begins with you addressing what many/most people may think about an issue, but then switching to justifying why your different take has value/merit.
What is the pivot from popular thought model?
This is a key strategy to annotating strategies once you get to the 2nd or 3rd source.
What is noticing relationships (agreements/disagreements) between sources?
If you were to perfectly divide your timing on the hour of multiple choice, you would allocate __________ minutes per reading passage and ___________ minutes per composition passage.
What is 15 and 10?
These words are too ____________ and shouldn't be mentioned in a rhetorical analysis essay without some modification: emotion, diction, tone, syntax.
What is "general or "vague"?
Earning on a 4 on evidence and commentary means I need to have ____________ strategies that connect to the author's main goal and I need to be ___________ in my analysis.
What is multiple and consistent?
What is concession?
Dr. Jolliffe, who wrote the very first document we read about synthesis, gave us advice that in order to succeed on the synthesis essay, we need to be _______________ with the sources.
What is "conversational"?
I taught you that if you don't understand a massive and/or complex sentence, you should _____________ ___________________.
What is "break it down word by word or phrase by phrase"?
NOT telling me what portion of the rhetorical analysis prompt you're analyzing because you're already in sequential order, not citing both the source letter and name in parenthesis in the synthesis essay because of superfluous citation, and not meandering in your justification of your assertion in an argument essay results in _____________ writing. Hint: you learned this term in our ACT English review.
What is "concise"?
This process involves guessing at specific strategies solely based on the relationship between the author/speaker and the intended audience. You can do this before you read the first word of the passage.
What is predictive rhetoric?
This model of argumentation seeks compromise between two parties that VEHEMENTLY disagree.
What is Rogerian?
Earning the sophistication point in synthesis depends on you noticing the _____________ of the issue which can be done through writing about conflicts and complications between the sources. When initially reading the context on the first page of the synthesis prompt, ask yourself, why is this issue ____________?
What is complexity/complicated?
This a term I've taught you that may help you figure out a word you don't know. A __________ is a word you DO know that sounds like the word you DON'T know. For instance, "council" is a word I know that sounds like "conciliatory", a word I may not know.
What is a cognate?
The purpose of studying ______________ throughout the year was not only because it pops up in tone word questions on multiple choice but also in the passages themselves.
What is "vocabulary"?