Rhetorical Situation
Terms
Rhetorical Choices
Author's Purpose
Types of Sentences
100

Who the writer is trying to reach.

What is audience?

100

Comparing something without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

(Ex. Love is a rose, He is the light of my life)

100

Two rhetorical appeals.

What is Ethos, Pathos (Logos)

200

What the writer is hoping the audience will think.

What is message?

200

The use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning.

What is connotation?

200

Asked to draw attention rather than for an answer.

What is rhetorical questions?
200

Appealing to an audience's emotions

What is pathos?

200
Used to express sudden and strong emotions, and it ends with an exclamation point.

What is an exclamatory sentence? 

300

What the writer hopes the audience will do.

What is purpose?

300

Literal meaning of a word.

What is denotation?

300

A very short story story about a real person or event used to make a larger point.

What is anecdote?
300

Appealing to an audience's values or credibility.

What is ethos?

300

Used to question something and it ends with a question mark.

What is an interrogative sentence?

400

What inspired the writer to create a text.

What is Exigence?

400

The way words are put together in a sentence to produce a certain meaning.

What is syntax?

400

Obvious exaggeration to emphasize a point.

What is hyperbole?

(Ex. My feet are killing me, Cry me a river, I've said it a million times)

400

Appealing to an audience's sense of reason or logic.

What is logos?

400
Is informative and ends with a period or a full stop.

What is a declarative sentence?

500

Strategy used to analyze visual rhetoric.

What is OPTIC?

500

When a certain word of phrase is repeated at the beginning of clauses or sentences that follow each other. 

What is Anaphora?

500

Putting two contrasting elements together.

What is juxtaposition?

(Ex: Night and Day, Good and Evil, War and Peace)

500

Expresses a command, an order, or a request.

What is an imperative sentence?

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