basic definitions
rhetorical context
Ethos, pathos, logos
Examples/
practice
100
Rhetoric is the way we use ______________________to persuade an audience.
What is images and text
100
When discussing rhetorical context, another word for "context" is
What is situation
100
Aristotle articulated three “artistic appeals” that a rhetor could draw on to make a case—what are they?
What are logos, pathos, and ethos?
100
When Mitt Romney claims that his experience in managing big business will make him the better president, one who will be able to get America back on track, he is using what type of an appeal?
What is Ethical
200
When you do rhetorical analysis, you have to look at a text from the perspective of both the __________and the ______________.
What is reader and writer
200
Exigence is the circumstance or condition that invites a response; rhetorical discourse is usually --------------- some kind of problem.
What is responding to
200
argument from reason; it appeals to an audience’s intellectual side. As audiences we want to know the “facts of the matter,” and this type of appeal helps present these—statistics, data, and logical statements.
What is logos?
200
You see an ad that shows the destruction left by a major flood. There are images of debris, dirty water, destroyed homes. Then there is a close up of a child, who stares into the camera. What type of an appeal is this?
What is Pathetic
300
One of the basics of rhetorical analysis is the understanding that all writing and rhetoric is a series of _______.
What is choices
300
What are 2 parts of the rhetorical context? (there are many, but you need to name and define just 2)
What is Audience, exigence, constraints (according to Carroll), or Author, Topic, Audience, Purpose, and Occasion (according to Wilhoit)
300
This type of appeal comes in many forms: an anecdote or narrative, an image such as a photograph, or even humor.
What is Pathos?
300
If an author shares many of his or her personal experiences and draws attention to his/her understanding of how complex a topic is, is that a logical, a pathetic or an ethical appeal?
What is Ethical
400
In saying that text and context are intimately related, Wilhoit means that ????
What is The way someone writes is influenced by who they are writing for, why they are writing.
400
If you ask the questions “what is the ad responding to? What problem does it hope to address?” , what part of the rhetorical context are you looking at?
What is the exigence/purpose/occasion
400
when you, as a reader or viewer, are asked to trust a speaker’s credibility to believe the message this speaker is giving, it is an example of (pathos? Logos? Ethos?)
What is ethos?
400
At the beginning of Allen’s essay, she uses the following intro: Several years ago, in a first year writing course, a student nervously approached me after class, asking if we could talk about her latest draft of a formal paper.* She was worried about the content of the draft, about the fact that in writing about her writing process (the assignment for the paper), she found her tone to be at best frustrated, at worst grumbling and whiney. “I don’t really like writing. Is that okay?” she asked. Is she setting up a logical, an ethical, or a pathetic appeal to her reader? Think about who her reader is and what she wants to convince her reader of (that writing just takes hard work and effort, and anyone can succeed).
500
Wilhoit: “in a rhetorical analysis essay, you determine a source text’s rhetorical effectiveness by examining how the author employs language and/or visual images to achieve a particular effect” (127) So is rhetorical analysis really a critique?
What is YEP
500
Carroll says that “that no rhetorical performance takes place in a vacuum” What does she mean by this? Think of a “rhetorical performance” as any piece of writing, any ad, any media performance, etc.
500
Both candidates used a great deal of pathos during the debate. Does this sentence use wording that is appropriate for describing rhetorical strategy?
What is NO-- "pathetic appeal" or "pathos-driven" approach, which can be seen when the candidates did what, used what words, said what, specifically?
500
What type of appeal is Lamott using in her intro to "Shitty First Drafts"? "Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. People tend to look at successful writers who are getting their books published and maybe even doing well financially and think that they sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a million dollars, feeling great about who they are and how much talent they have and what a great story they have to tell; that they take in a few deep breaths, push back their sleeves, roll their necks a few times to get all the cricks out, and dive in, typing fully formed passages as fast as a court reporter. But this is just the fantasy of the uninitiated"
What is pathos
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