Rhetorical Devices
What device is this an example of: A fire station burns down.
What is irony?
What is an purpose? What is what does the author want the audience to UNDERSTAND and DO?
The minimum number of sources you need to cite in your synthesis essay
What is 3?
What kinds of evidence can you use in your argument essay? Name at least 4 possible types.
What is CHORES (current events, history, outside knowledge, reading, experiences, science, pop culture)
Name 5 rhetorical strategies
What are.... diction, syntax, imagery, tone, simile, metaphor, rhetorical question, personification, antithesis, juxtaposition, repetition, etc.
Placing two opposite ideas side by side for contrast
Juxtaposition
The urgency or problem that caused the text to be created
What is exigence?
What is this an example of in an argument essay: “Although some people say we should lower standards, that would only hurt our students in the long run.”
What is the counterclaim/counterargument
Describe at least 4 components of an effective thesis for a rhetorical analysis.
tone word, genre, author's name, author's credibility, purpose (understand), purpose (to do), rhetorical choice 1, rhetorical choice 2, intended audience, text title, etc.
A question asked for effect, not meant to be answered
Rhetorical question
What CAT stands for in SPACECAT
What is choices, appeals, and tone?
The two types of synthesis prompts that you might get.
What are the explanatory/ factors prompt or the argumentative prompt.
Name 3 texts that you have read in high school (fiction or non fiction) that you could use as evidence
A speaker shares a personal story about failure to connect with the audience.
What is an anecdote
The situation or time period surrounding the text
What is a context?
Combining multiple sources to support one idea
What is synthesizing sources
What are the claim, reasons, and counterclaim.
The difference between diction versus tone
What is word choice versus attitude
A writer compares their struggle to that of David facing Goliath.
What is a Biblical Allusion?
The strategies a writer uses to achieve their purpose
What are rhetorical choices
The term for ensuring that all of your evidence and commentary directly ties back to your thesis in a cohesive way.
What is a line of reasoning.
The part of an essay where you give credit to the opposing side's argument.
What is a concession?
The structure of the test such as how many multiple choice questions, how many essays, and timing.
What is 45 mc questions (1 hour), 3 essays - synthesis, argument, and rhetorical analysis (2 hours and 15 min) 3 hours and 15 min total.