Rhetorical Situation
The immediate problem the writer is responding to.
What is the exigence?
May 13, 2026.
What is the day of the AP exam?
Appealing to someone's emotions.
What is pathos?
The amount of sources you must cite from on your synthesis essay.
What is three?
You must complete this every Monday afternoon.
What is AP multiple choice questions?
To persuade, to entertain, to inform, to warn, etc.
What is the purpose?
The essay in which you argue the author's purpose and at least two rhetorical strategies used to develop that purpose.
What is the rhetorical analysis essay?
Appealing to someone's sense of logic.
What is logos?
The criteria with the most amount of points for each essay.
What is commentary?
The three types of essays you will write during this unit.
What is rhetorical analysis, synthesis and argument?
The acronym used to understand the rhetorical situation.
What is SPACECAT?
The number of multiple choice questions you must complete in an hour.
What is 45?
Appealing to a person's credibility.
What is ethos?
The score each essay is out of.
What is six?
April 27 - May 1.
What are the days of our unit exam?
Tone, word choice, ethos, pathos and logos are examples of these.
What are rhetorical choices?
The amount of time you realistically have to read each passage for the essays.
What is 5 minutes per text or 15 minutes total?
Strong word choice to convey an author's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
The methodology that supports you in building a line of reasoning.
What is because, consequently, therefore?
The type of essay your homework over break is related to.
What is argument?
The three main rhetorical appeals.
What is ethos, pathos and logos?
The essay in which you must utilize your own evidence to support your claim(s) in a line of reasoning.
What is the argument essay?
Descriptive word choice that refers to the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
The approximate time you should spend craftoing each of the three essays over the course of two hours.
What is 40 minutes?
A quality you should feel at the end of our unit.
Confident, prepared or ready to take your AP exam.