The Basics of Rhetoric
The art of using language to inform, entertain, or persuade
What is rhetoric?
In an argument, the sequence of reasons that are logically organized and come together to support a claim
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How many sources from the prompt do you HAVE to use in your argument?
A deliberate decision made by a speaker in order to improve or enhance their rhetoric.
What is a rhetorical choice?
BAT
Background, Angles, Task
Used to break down FRQ 1 and 3 prompts
The classical names for the methods of persuasion - appealing to logic, emotion, or credibility.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
An explicit direction from the speaker for the audience to do something.
What is a call to action?
A chart or table would be described as this kind of visual source.
What is quantitative?
Telling a brief story to provide an example of the claim being made or give more insight into the current situation.
What is an anecdote?
Also acceptable: personal experience.
CERERL
What are Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning, Evidence, Reasoning, and Link/Lead out?
Used for writing body paragraphs.
The set of circumstances in which a piece of rhetoric is delivered
What is a rhetorical situation?
An explanation of how your evidence connects to your reasons and, ultimately, your claim; the last part of a CER chunk.
What is reasoning?
The ways that you can counter arguments and evidence from sources that you disagree with.
What are concede, refute, and rebut?
Will also accept qualify.
A reference to a well-known event, person, place, or story.
What is an allusion?
SPACE CAT
What are speaker, purpose, audience, context, exigence, choices, appeals, and tone?
Used to analyze rhetoric
The urgent problem or issue that is being addressed by a piece of rhetoric; why NOW?
What is exigence?
Bringing up a point that those who disagree with you make in order to disprove that point and therefore strengthen your own argument.
What is refuting?
Also accepted: Acknowledging the opposition, counterarguments, and refutation
The name of the organizer we use to sort sources.
What is a matrix?
Personal observation, testimonial, statistics, and examples are just a few of these.
What are types of evidence?
CHORES
What are current events, history, observations, reading, entertainment, and situations?
Used to help generate evidence from background knowledge during FRQ 3
The Greek philosopher who coined the term 'rhetoric'
Who is Aristotle?
A method of organization for a persuasive argument that starts with the context and claim, gives reasons, and ends with a call to action. This method is used when you believe that your audience AGREES with you.
What is deductive reasoning?
This citation format is used for humanities and is therefore used in the class. In-text citations in this format have the author's last name and page numbers, if applicable.
What is MLA formatting?
What is connotation?
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What are money, safety, ethics, environment, international impact, technology, and time?
Used for gathering angles during argumentative and synthesis essays.