Rhetoric
Class Topics
Ms. Johnston
Rhetorical Situation/ Triangle
Free State
100

using words, gestures, images, etc. to deliberately convey a message

What is rhetoric?

100

Something we looked at to talk about bad ethos

What are Youtube apology videos?

100

Our room number

What is 306?

100

The three parts of the rhetorical triangle

What is speaker, purpose, and audience?

100

Our school principal

Who is Amy McAnarney

200
Speaker/ writer credibility

What is ethos?

200

The person who wrote a letter from Birmingham Jail

Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

200

Ms. Johnston's pets

What are two cats?

200

The time period and setting of a piece

What is context?

200

When our school opened

When is 1997?

300

logic, facts, statistics, reasoning

What is logos?

300
An article topic we discussed as an example of bad logic

What is an opinion piece on Gen Z?

300

Ms. Johnston's birth month

What is August?

300

the thing/moment that caused the writer or speaker to speak

What is exigence?

300

A student-led group who helps students with their writing during ECT time and after school in the library

What is the Firebird Writing Center?

400

emotional appeal

What is pathos?

400

What mistakes in logic are called

What are logical fallacies?

400

Ms. Johnston has 7 of these.

What are brothers?

400

This type of appeal is built through choices such as figurative language, sensory details, and charged words.

What is pathos?

400

D's dog's name

What is Wayne?

500
The type of paper you are writing now

What is rhetorical analysis?

500

The way communication physically happens
(involves modality, medium, genre, and circulation)

What is the means?

500

One of Ms. Johnston's favorite movies

...

500

To inform, persuade, entertain, for example

What is purpose?

500

Our school's head attendance secretary

Who is Ana Tuicakau?

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