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The individual or group that has created the text in the rhetorical situation
What is the speaker/rhetor?
An appeal to logic through reason
What is logos?
The benefits of a given genre
What are affordances?
Cyndi Lauper is singing to her father and other men in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," otherwise known as the song's this.
What is audience?
An infographic from the CDC that states that "In 2013, more than a quarter million middle and high school students never smoked regular cigarettes but had used e-cigarettes... 3 times as many as 2011!" is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
Who is the audience?
An appeal to emotions
The drawbacks of a given genre
What are constraints?
Stromae's song titled "Papaoutai" roughly translates to "Father where are you"—which also relates the song's this to the audience.
What is purpose?
Basketball player LeBron James as a Nike spokesperson is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is ethos?
The intent that the rhetor has for their text, including what effect they want it to have on their audience(s)
What is the purpose?
Commonly described as “credibility,” it is what gives any writer credibility or authority on a given subject
What is ethos?
Ways of communicating that include the linguistic, visual, spatial, gestural, and aural
What are modalities?
In Stromae's "Papaoutai" video, this rhetorical appeal describes the effect the boy watching the dancers out the window has on the audience.
What is pathos?
These are two modalities I saw in the "Papaoutai" music video.
What are linguistic/gestural/visual/aural?
The methods the rhetor utilizes to achieve his or her purpose. This includes use of ethos, pathos, logos, and attention to kairos
What is rhetorical appeals?
A question of timing and placement
What is kairos?
Refers to categories of communication that have been typified through repeated rhetorical actions
What are genres?
One OK Rock's music video follows a young boy who us ethnically different from his peers and imagines what his life would be like if he acted like them when he is older. The events that lead him to imagine this can be described as this rhetorical term.
What is exigence?
Memes are an example of this rhetorical term that describes a category of communication.
What is a genre?
The ways that various communities and cultures understand and employ rhetoric and have histories of rhetoric. Rhetorics differ across cultures and time periods, and so we strive to share examples from many cultural traditions
What are rhetorical traditions?
An issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak
What is exigence?
To deliberate across differences and appeal to someone who is in power
What is remonstration?
"My father yells 'What you gonna do with your life?' / Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one / But girls they wanna have fun" is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos and/or remonstration?
Bella's favorite BTS member is this very handsome man.
Who is Jin?