The Triangle
What is PATHOS?
All rhetorical situations originate with this; the term that refers to what motivates someone to argue in the first place.
What is EXIGENCE?
This is the location where Kennedy spoke, one of two major cities that avoided rioting and violence in the wake of an historic event.
What is INDIANAPOLIS?
The specific audience of Patrick Henry's speech is...
Who are the VIRGINIA CONVENTION DELEGATES?
This common device compares two things that are not similar to reveal an abstract likeness using the words "like" or "as".
What is SIMILE?
This term refers to the content (i.e. facts and supporting details) that back up an author's claims/positions they take.
What is LOGOS?
This category of rhetorical analysis refers to the MESSAGE of the author, asking "What did the author want his audience to think or do as a result of reading this text?"
What is PURPOSE?
This specific event is the EXIGENCE of Kennedy's speech.
What is THE ASSASSINATION OF MLK?
True or false? The purpose of Patrick Henry's speech is to convince the legislature to not go to war with England.
What is FALSE? "Give me liberty or give me death!"
This common devices uses words with similar beginning consonant sounds close together within a sentence, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is ALLITERATION?
This appeal relies on the author's authority or sense of character, engaging the audience's sense of trust.
What is ETHOS?
This category of rhetorical analysis refers to the TIME and PLACE of the piece that provides CONTEXT.
What is OCCASION?
Kennedy's appeal to ETHOS is in play when he reminds the audience "I had a member of my family killed..."; to whose assassination is he referring?
Who is JOHN F. KENNEDY?
The passage "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience" spoken by Henry can be best categorized by which aspect of the rhetorical triangle?
BONUS: Which common rhetorical device is also being used by Henry?
What is ETHOS?
What is METAPHOR?
This device of emphasis asks a question where an answer isn't expected because the declarative point is being made within the question itself.
What is RHETORICAL QUESTIONS?
This philosopher developed the foundational triangle of rhetoric.
Who is ARISTOTLE?
This category of rhetorical analysis allows us to understand an author's identity, VOICE, and the POINT OF VIEW being expressed.
What is SPEAKER?
Which category of the rhetorical triangle is this annotation's best fit?
"For those of you who are black --- you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge."
What is PATHOS? (words of feelings emphasized)
Which common rhetorical device is most frequently used in the following passage?
"I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?"
What is RHETORICAL QUESTIONS?
This device of humor uses extreme exaggeration to make a point, such as "I asked you to clean your room a million times today!"
What is HYPERBOLE?
Fill in the blank:
"The rhetorical triangle is typically represented by an equilateral triangle, suggesting that... [these appeals] should be ____________ within a text."
What is BALANCED?
This category uses DICTION, SYNTAX, and IMAGERY to reveal the author's ATTITUDES or BIAS about a topic.
What is TONE?
Which category of rhetorical analysis (SOASPTone) does the following annotation best fit?
"So I shall ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family... but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country..."
What is PURPOSE? (message)
Fill in the blank:
"Give me liberty or give me ________."
BONUS: Which device of rhythm is used here, repeating the words 'give me' at the beginning of the idea phrases?
What is DEATH?
What is ANAPHORA?
This device of rhythm repeats a word or a phrase at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row, such as:
"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness..."
What is ANAPHORA?