Appealing and Dealing
This rhetorical appeal aims to elicit an emotional response from its audience.
What is pathos?
The characteristic of rhetoric that means it involves the rhetor making intentional choices before it reaches its audience.
What is rhetoric is planned?
Communication that uses images or other characteristics that readers see.
What is visual mode?
The main argument of an essay, usually stated in the first paragraph.
What is a thesis statement?
A multi-laned combination of a road and a street.
Using clearly cited outside sources to support factual claims in an argument is an example of what type of ethos?
Invented Ethos
The social function of rhetoric that involves a call to action towards a cause or contingent issue.
What is rhetoric assists advocacy?
Communication that uses sound.
The way an academic summary describes the rhetorical moves rather than the plot events.
What is authorial action?
The example of causal reasoning used by Future Proof to explain why fuel efficiency became regulated, but only for sedans.
What is the 1973 oil crisis (or gas shortage)?
This type of logos uses established conclusions or well-known modes of reasoning (historical, legal, etc.)
What is causal reasoning?
Strategies of language that aim to elicit an emotion or engage the audience’s value commitments.
What are appeals?
Communication that uses physical arrangement.
What is spatial mode?
MLA is an initialism for this organization.
Modern Language Association.
In the ACLU article, the I-81 highway in Syracuse, NY is used as an "example" of structural racism in highway design to achieve this type of rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
Arguments or lines of reasoning that attempt to shape an audience's beliefs.
Logos
The social function of rhetoric that allows groups of people to come together around shared values and ideas.
What is rhetoric builds community?
Communication that uses body movement or positioning.
What is gestural mode?
This is the first thing always listed in an MLA citation.
What is the author's last name?
The best-selling vehicle (make and model) in the U.S. in 2023.
What is the Ford F-150?
This type of logos uses a shorthand logical appeal that relies on assumed cultural knowledge or beliefs—often involves a "truncated syllogism," shortening a reasoned proof.
Enthymeme
The social function of rhetoric that identifies its capacity for influencing decisions and asks these questions:
—Who is allowed to speak in a society?
—On what topics are we permitted to speak?
—In which settings is speech allowed?
—What kind of language is it permissible to employ?
—Which media are available to which advocates, and why?
What is rhetoric distributes power?
Communication that uses language—written or spoken words.
What is linguistic mode?
The deadline for the second required Writing Center visit for English 100.
What is December 6th?
Yesterday, November 4th, workers at this manufacturing company agreed to a contract that would end their labor strike after over seven weeks of halted production. The deal includes a 38% wage increase over four years, and ratification and productivity bonuses. However, the company refused to meet strikers’ demand to restore a pension plan that was frozen nearly a decade ago.
What is Boeing?