Rhetorical Devices
A comparison of two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Analogy
What are the three essays you have to write on the AP test?
Synthesis, rhetorical analysis, argument
What is the acronym for the rhetorical situation?
SPACE (of SPACE CAT- also accepted)
What is a fragment?
An incomplete sentence-- it is missing a subject or a verb
What was the main idea of the reading "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan?
That "broken" English does not mean someone is unintelligent
An exaggerated statement or claim used for effect
Hyperbole
What are the rubric categories for every essay?
Thesis, Evidence and Commentary, Sophistication
Name the parts of the rhetorical situation (as named in our acronym)
Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence
(Choices, Appeals, Tone)
What is an appositive?
A renaming of something-- it adds additional information that is non-essential
Who was the second president's wife?
Abigail Adams
Placing two things side by side so as to highlight their differences
Juxtaposition
How many sources are you required to use to get more than 1 point in Evidence and Commentary on your synthesis essay?
Three (3)
Define context
Background information about the creation of the text. Includes things like time period and what was happening in the world at the time, info about the author, where things were published, etc.
What is a comma splice?
A type of run-on sentence that fuses two sentences together with only a comma.
What subculture did Phuc Tran join in high school when searching for his identity?
Punk
A literary scheme in which one or several conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses
Asyndeton
What should a thesis for a rhetorical analysis essay address?
The text's purpose and strategies used in the text
What part of the rhetorical situation needs to be kept in mind when writing your rhetorical analysis thesis and subsequently the rest of your essay then
The author's purpose
What type of comma should you ALWAYS use in this classroom when it is appropriate?
The Oxford comma before "and" in a list.
What language(s) did Robin Wall Kimmerer use as examples to showcase a "grammar of animacy"?
Potawotomi and Ojibwe
A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form
Chiasmus
Name one way to showcase your line of reasoning
Some options: transition sentences between paragraphs; topic sentences that show the claims you're making; transitions that echo each other or show the relationship between subtopics
Why do we need to think about the rhetorical situation when doing rhetorical analysis?
Authors/speakers make choices based on those factors-- who the audience is, ideas of the time (context), what they are trying to do.
Where should punctuation go when there is a citation after a sentence?
After the citation (even if the punctuation appeared in quotation marks).
Name 1 book referenced in Allison Bechdel's comic "Compulsory Reading"
Lots of options: The World of Pooh, Green Mansions, Fear of Flying, Beloved, The Corrections, Love in the Time of Cholera, Maus, Persepolis, Dante's Inferno