Rhetoric
The rhetorical situation is made up of four parts: Purpose, Audience, context, and _____.
Genre
This chill-fest includes Friday the 13th, Dracula, and Resident Evil
Horror
These musicians rely primarily on fast-paced lyrics, hard beats, and shortened choruses, but ultimately communicate ideas through their intonation and style.
Artists like Drake, De La Soul, and Eminem appear here
Rap/Hip-Hop
Speaking of genres, this one includes rules, a specific course of actions, and usually results in a winner.
Game
What genre uses a standard "Introduction, Body Paragraph, Conclusion" structure?
Essay
This aspect of the rhetorical situation influences how a genre is shaped and utilized to reach certain ears.
Audience
Lots of high-stakes speeder chases, laser swords, and droids here! Who could have a bad feeling about this sci-fi classic?
Star Wars
This is all about the loud guitars, frizzy hair, and was primarily found in the 60s/70s. Though it's not as hard as it's younger cousin, this band really does roll out.
Artists include: Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, and Elvis
Rock
Found in the throes of Spotify, YouTube, and Apple, this genre comprises of many subjects like entertainment, news, and music. It's amazing what just audio can do!
Podcast
This genre uses meter, line breaks, and figurative language to convey a message
Poetry
These are what help define what a genre is by highlighting aspects of it like language, structure, topics, and medium.
Conventions
In a distant land, there's danger afoot. Usually in the wildest way possible with cowfolk, bandits, and some saloon shenanigans.
Western
This really does make you want to jump out of your seat, doesn't it? Since it's primarily using bright sounds, flashy lyrics, and some amount of confetti, you can understand why this genre gets its name.
Artists include: Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, and Michael Jackson
Pop
If someone is agreeing to a statement by nodding their head, this would be an example of _______.
Body language
This constant source of information finds itself on either websites, corner stands, or on your front porch
Newspaper
Examples of these include: Star-crossed lovers, reluctant heroes, and "one last case" missions
Tropes
This genre focuses primarily on personal experience, usually in either short of long form essays, lyrical poetry, or prose. Stories about the author's life, and those they surrounded themselves with are often intermingled with a specific subject like family, grief, or a love of candy.
Popular examples include: Why I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy and The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
Memoir
While not always well known, this genre focuses a lot more on its own obscurity. Styles and approaches can vary, which makes it almost hard to label at times. Though they really do things on their own.
Artists include: Will Wood, Modest Mouse, and Tame Impala
Indie
Found primarily on sites like YouTube Twitch, this gives opportunities for fans to interact with their favorite content creator by sending messages live.
Live Chat/Chat
This form of writing is hard to publish, going through extensive peer reviews to be uploaded to ScienceDirect, PSYCInfo, or MEDLINE
Academic/Science Journals
If you are using your targeted audience to influence what genre you are going to write in, you are using genre as a _____.
(Ex: Using a blog to talk about technology for an adult audience)
Venue/Vehicle.
This franchise written in 1937 and published in 1954 is often seen as the "foundation" of the High-Fantasy genre, inspiring games like "Dungeons and Dragons" and "The Legend of Zelda," as well as books like The Witcher and Shadow and Bone
The Lord of the Rings
Focusing a lot on electronics, light synth beats, and simple melodies, this genre's goal is to help you chill, relax, and maybe study a bit.
Lo-fi
Found on both computer and mobile devices, this genre comprises of images, links to other accounts, as well as giving users the ability to showcase their and other's ideas in only 2,200 characters!
Found primarily in the inboxes of executives or project managers, these usually indicate areas of improvement or concerns about a company's service
Formal Letter/Memo