Rhetorical Strategies
Rhetoric
What is The study of effective, persuasive language use?
Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue
What is Bias?
Word choice.
What is Diction?
An assertion, usually supported by evidence.
What is Claim?
The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech.
What is Style?
A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer.
What is Rhetorical question?
Counterargument
What is A challenge to a position; an opposing argument?
Syntax
What is Sentence structure?
The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer.
What is Thesis?
Tone
What is The speaker’s attitude toward the subject or audience?
Rhetorical triangle
What is A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience?
Refute
What is To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument?
The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition.
What is Denotation?
Subject
What is In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing?
Voice
What is In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun. In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing?
Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose
What is Rhetorical modes?
A sentence that makes a statement and creates an argument position.
What is Declarative Sentence?
Connotation
What is That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word’s literal meaning?
A term used for the author or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing.
What is Speaker?
The speaker’s position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone.
What is Attitude?
Aristotelian triangle
What is A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience?
An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it.
What is Satire?
The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language.
What is Archaic Diction?
Purpose
What is One’s intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing?
Persona
What is The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing?