Rhetoric
Ethos, Logos & Pathos
Audience and Message
Formal Layers
Potpourri
100

Blank, Blank, and Blank make up the Rhetorical Triangle

What are Audience, Message and Communicator? 

100

Practical intelligence, a virtuous character, and good will

What is ethos?

100

Real recipients of a given piece of communication

Who is the actual audience? 

100

This layer operates on a sheerly emotional level: it offers different “energies” that produce noticeably different effects on a viewer.

What is color?

100

Your English teacher's name

What is Justin Robert Ray? 

200

All the ways humans create effects on each other through communication of every type

What is rhetorical? 

200

Chapter 1 of Becoming Rhetorical featured an ad from the American Lung Cancer Society which showed a cigarette with this accessory. 

What is a pacifier? 

200

What the audience is supposed to take away from the communicative act

What is the message? 

200

How far the camera is from its subject

What is Distance from Subject? 

200

Refers to the cultural meanings of the images in the image

What are social layers? 

300

Early developer of philosophy and this r-word

Who is Aristotle? 

300

How the internal consistency of a message (including the claim, reasons, and unstated assumptions) appeals to an audience

What is logos? 

300

Name for someone or someones who establishes message.

Who is the communicator or creator? 

300

Refers to the angle from which the subject is portrayed or represented in an image

What is point of view? 

300

Major League baseball player whose speech we analyzed in class. 

Who is Lou Gehrig? 

400

Developing your rhetorical skills more consciously, and making those skills more habitual. 

What is Rhetorical Training?

400

Ethos, Logos and Pathos are examples of this. 

What are Rhetorical Appeals? 

400

Those for whom the communicator is creating the piece of communication

Who is the imagined audience?

400

Blank contains a lot of dark tones or low light and Blank contains a lot of light and/or lighter tones. 

What are low-key lighting and high-key lighting? 
400

Information about the period, the place, and the events that created, influenced, or formed the backdrop to the resources.

What is historical context? 

500

Blank is the effort to understand how communication creates effects on people while Blank is the deliberate shaping of messages for an audience. 

What are rhetorical analysis and rhetorical action? 

500

How messages persuade by arousing the emotions of the audience

What is pathos? 

500

This company's ad featured a woman with a foreshadowing alter ego, encouraging smoking to prevent weight gain. 

What is Lucky Strike?

500

The thing that the viewer is supposed to focus on or notice.

What is emphasis? 

500

Number of the classroom where we've met regularly for most of the semester. 

What is 208? 

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