Rhetorical Analysis
The rhetorical situation consists of speaker, audience, context, purpose, message, and this.
What is exigence?
We learned about 3 types of claims: fact, value and this.
What is a policy claim?
This is the minimum number of sources you must integrate into your synthesis response.
What is 3?
This is how long you have to answer the 45 multiple choice questions.
What is 60 minutes (1 hour)?
This is how long the AP English Language exam is, including the MC test and the FRQs.
What is 3 hours and 15 minutes? (or 195 minutes)
A thesis for a rhetorical analysis FRQ must identify both the author's purpose and message and this.
What are rhetorical choices?
This term refers to the common assumption that links the data to the claim.
What is warrant?
This term refers to explaining the specific circumstances in which you agree with a writer's argument and the circumstances in which you disgree with them.
What is qualify?
These types of questions ask students to “read like a writer” and consider revisions to ‘drafts’.
What are writing questions?
This is the name of the main character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
What is Hester Prynne?
This type of commentary refers to explaining striking words, analyzing connotations & associations, and identifying rhetorical tools or devices from a quote.
What is unpacking?
A good claim is logical, emerges from a reasonable consideration of evidence, is debatable, and typically includes this type of clause.
What is subordinate?
One way to earn the sophisitication point for synthesis is to explore this across the sources.
What is complexities or tensions?
We use this analogy to refer to questions about the whole passage rather than specific sections of it.
What are "forest" questions?
This is how many sections/classes of APEL there are this year.
What is 7?
In order to earn the sophistication point for a rhetorical analysis essay, the student must explain the significance or relevance of the writer's rhetorical choices given this.
What is the rhetorical situation?
Fill in the blank of this approach to answering an argument FRQ: 1. Understand the idea under discussion 2. __________ 3. Develop a stance
What is consider and evaluate evidence?
You enter into this by carefully reading and understanding the perspectives and ideas surrounding an issue, examining your own ideas on the matter, and then synthesizing these views into a more informed position than the one you began with
What is the conversation or discourse?
In order to build your confidence in identifying the correct answer, we recommend that you do this before looking at the answer choices.
What is answer ourselves first?
This is the name of the article we used as a model for preparing for the Synthesis Project in tri 2.
What is "Twitter Needs a Pause Button"?
There are 4 rhetorical appeals: ethos, logos, pathos, and this one that refers to understanding the right time to take action.
What is kairos?
This term refers to disproving an opponent's statement or argument by presenting contradicting evidence.
What is a refutation?
When analyzing the sources, we have encouraged you to play these two "games".
What are the doubting and believing games?
This common wrong answer type introduces a new idea the passage doesn't support.
What is tangential?
This is the title of the very first passage we read in APEL back in August.
What is "English is a Crazy Language"?