The Rhetorical Situation
This is the shape that is usually used to make a diagram of the Rhetorical Situation.
What is a triangle?
The art of persuasive communication.
What is Rhetoric?
This is the appeal to an audience's emotions.
What is Pathos?
These are the three different types of evidence you could use to persuade an audience.
What are data/statistics, testimonials, and anecdotes?
Using exaggerated terms/words for a specific purpose.
What is hyperbole?
These are the three basic elements of the Rhetorical Situation.
What are the speaker/writer (communicator), the audience/reader, and the content/text?
This philosopher was the first to codify and organize the study of Rhetoric and is credited with being the "Father of Rhetoric".
Who was Aristotle?
This is the appeal to an audience's sense of logic and reasoning.
What is Logos?
This type of evidence usually works best to develop the logos appeal to an audience.
What is data/statistics?
A word that, when spoken aloud, sounds like its definition.
What is an onomatopoeia?
This element is most associated with the ethos appeal.
What is the speaker/writer (communicator)?
This philosopher felt that rhetoric was useful only for DECEIVING people or hiding flaws, rather than encouraging self-improvement.
Who was Plato?
This is an appeal to an audience's sense of the speaker's/writer's credibility, trustworthiness, or authority.
What is Ethos?
This type of evidence is usually best for developing ethos appeal with an audience.
What is a testimonial?
A short story about a real (or at least realistic) person or event.
This element is most closely associated with the pathos appeal.
What is the audience/reader?
This is the century when the study of Rhetoric was first organized, codified, and formalized.
What is the 300s BCE ?
Using an organized, sensible structure when writing an essay will develop these two appeals with your audience.
What are Logos and Ethos?
This type of evidence is effective for developing the pathos appeal with an audience.
What is an anecdote?
This rhetorical device involves the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive sentences.
What is anaphora?
This element is most associated with the logos appeal.
What is the content/text?
This, the 4th appeal originally associated with the study of Rhetoric, is no longer emphasized in studying the subject of rhetoric.
What is Kairos?
Using poetic language and/or imagery effectively will develop which two appeals with your audience?
What are Pathos and Ethos?
If the data/statistics you use are from a credible, trustworthy source and you cite the data correctly, you are developing these two appeals.
What are Logos and Ethos?
The speaker or writer's motivation for communicating a message to an audience – the 'E' of SPACE CAT.
What is Exigence?