Rhetorical Situation
The person or entity making a claim or imparting the message
The lifestyle and set of beliefs that dominated the colonies before The Age of Enlightenment
What is Puritanism?
"Experience is the stylus that writes our selves."
Who is John Locke?
The speaker
Benjamin Franklin- delegate to the convention
Offers evidence that the speaker is credible
What is ethos?
The claim or message a speaker is imparting
The two groups of thinking that dominated the Age of Reason
What is Deism and Neoclassicism?
"So, I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for."
Who is Lou Gehrig?
The Audience
Who are other delegates of the convention?
Offers the audience logical ideas
What is logos?
The surrounding facts/environment in the rhetorical situation
What is the context?
Who is Isaac Newton?
"A penny saved is a penny earned"
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The purpose
That everyone should vote unanimously
Draws on the audience's emotions
The people or person receiving the message in a rhetorical situation
Who is the audience?
He believed in Natural Selection (that humans developed from monkeys).
Who is Charles Darwin?
"But their time is up. Their time is up."
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
The exigence
Why Franklin wanted to stop debating?
Ideas with flawed reasoning
What are logical fallacies?
The defining moment (or motivation) behind the purpose and message of a speaker
What is the exigence?
This belief system was built upon the complexity, variety, and order of Nature (with a capital N).
"It was we the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The context
This is an example of what logical fallacy: "Squirrels are dangerous. I saw one try to bite a cat once."
What is (hasty) Generalization?