Rhetorical Analysis
Define the bandwagon logical fallacy.
What is assuming something must be the right choice since everyone is doing it.
This appeal centers around the audience and convicining the audience of your message through playing on specific emotions.
What is pathos
THIS is a very short story that is significant to the topic at hand; usually adding personal knowledge or experience to the topic.
What is personal anecdote
Who is the intended audience in this following sentence: Issa Rae delivered her monologue on SNL before a live studio audience, broadcast on TV, and snippets of it was floating around on Twitter the next day.
What is the live studio audience
Define the euphemism propaganda technique.
What is disguising a bad reality with more pleasant or palatable wording.
When integrating a quote from a long piece of work, how much of the original piece do you integrate?
What is succinct and directly relevant to your point?
These are the four rhetorical appeals covered in class
What are ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos
WHAT is the action of proving a statement or theory to be wrong or false.
What is refutation
In the following sentence identify the portion of the sentence which covers the why now element of the rhetorical situation:
After being arrested for protesting racial discrimination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in response to the eight Alabama clergymen’s open letter admonishing his methods.
What is the letter admonishing King's methods
What are the four parts to the Toulmin style thesis statement?
What are the claim, qualifier, evidence/reasoning, and warrant.
What are the three parts to the Oreo Quote Integration sandwich?
What are the lead-in, the quote, and the analysis
This appeal centers around the speaker and convincing the audience that the speaker is credible to speak about the subject at hand.
What is ethos
WHAT is the testimony made by a qualified person about a scientific, technical, or professional issue.
What is expert testimony.
When looking for the purpose of a piece of writing what are the four components intended for the audience?
What are:
audience to do
audience to think
audience to feel
audience to believe
Define the ad hominem logical fallacy.
What is attacking the character of the person rather than the argument being made.
Define the Kairos appeal
What is centering around the timing of delivery of the message, it demands knowledge of the rhetorical situation so as to make sure that the speaker delivers the best message acknowledging the time for the a solid line of reasoning.
Provide the word for this definition: A question that is not answered by the writer because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no answer would suffice. It is used for effect, emphasis, or provocation, or for drawing a conclusionary statement from the fact at hand.
What is rhetorical question.
What are the two types of Satire and what are their definitions?
What are juvenalian and horation. Juvenalian is angry, caustic, resentful, and personal and Horation is tolerant, witty, wise, and self-effacing
Define the logos appeal
What is centering around the message itself and establishing a firm line of reasoning which is logical.
WHAT is exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole