Vocabulary Definitions 1
SOAPSTONE
Rhetoric
Appeals
Vocabulary Definitions 2
100
To reserve for a purpose; designate
What is allocate?
100
The author's attitude toward the subject matter
What is tone?
100
Who is conveying the message
What is speaker?
100
"Based on the dozens of archaeological expeditions I’ve made all over the world, I am confident that those potsherds are Mesopotamian in origin."
What is ethos?
100
Very skilled
What is adept?
200
To regard with horror or loathing; abominate
What is abhor?
200
The people that the text or speech is directed toward
What is audience?
200
The goal the speaker or writer wants to achieve
What is purpose?
200
"They’ve worked against everything we’ve worked so hard to build, and they don’t care who gets hurt in the process. Make no mistake, they’re the enemy, and they won’t stop until we’re all destroyed."
What is pathos?
200
Cheerful willingness; eagerness
What is alacrity?
300
Bitter or sharp animosity, especially in speech or behavior
What is acrimony?
300
The context that encouraged the writing to happen
What is occasion?
300
A clear and focused statement; a main idea
What is a thesis/claim/assertion?
300
"He is a forensics and ballistics expert for the federal government – if anyone’s qualified to determine the murder weapon, it’s him."
What is ethos?
300
Difficult to understand; recondite
What is abstruse?
400
A deviation from the proper or expected course
What is aberration?
400
"What does the speaker want the audience to think or do as a result of reading this text?” is a question you ask when looking at _______.
What is purpose?
400
The occasion or the time and place it was written and spoken
What is context?
400
"More than one hundred peer-reviewed studies have been conducted over the past decade, and none of them suggests that this is an effective treatment for hair loss."
What is logos?
400
To approach and speak to in an aggressive, hostile, or suggestive manner
What is accost?
500
Dexterous; skillful under pressing conditions
What is adroit?
500
The general topic, content, and ideas contained in the text
What is subject?
500
The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
What is rhetoric?
500
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery… We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut."
What is logos?
500
Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight
What is acumen?
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