Essay: Structure and Significance
Rhetorical Strats
Tools of Rhetoric
Rhetorical Strats (Nights)
Vocabulary
100

Elements necessary in the thesis paragraph before the thesis statement

What is contextualization, including author's name, the year, location, exigence, etc.

100

When a word or phrase is repeated in order to stress or emphasize that word or phrase

What is repitition?

100

Audience, Purpose, Context

What is rhetorical situation? 

100

How words and phrases are arranged (in sentence, paragraph, or greater writing) 

What is syntax?

100

The voice, characteristics, and attitude adopted by an author to present the story

What is Persona?

200

A thesis statement is only effective if it is __

What is 'defensible'

200

The words that the author chooses in order to set a tone for the piece.

What is diction?

200

The claim which asserts if something is true or not

What is a claim of fact

200

a comparison of two things in order to contextualize or clarify one of those things

What is an analogy?

200
An indirect substitution of a harsher word

What is euphemism? 

300

how evidence supports reasoning and explains how choices contribute to messege or purpose

What is commentary?

300

The author's purpose for writing

What is exigence?

300

A claim that argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong, or desirable/undesirable

What is a claim of value?

300
extreme exaggeration to call attention to object

What is hyperbole?

300

A brief story, usually told from one person or character to another, that illustrates a point in a way that provides greater insight 

What is an Anecdote?

400

Using persuasive and engaging writing choices, the student's ability to provide clear explanation and outline the significance and function of rhetorical strategies used

What is a sophistication point's criteria?

400

The use of words to juxtapose concepts with opposite meanings

What is an oxymoron?

400

A claim that attempts to establish, reinforce, or change a course of action

What is a claim of policy?

400

Repitition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or paragraphs

What is anaphora

400

When a speaker provides a question and then answers it themself

Hypophora

500

An essay that is consistent, with clear connections and reasonable logic will earn what score?

What is a 6?

500

Enlarging upon or adding detail to a specific part

What is amplification?

500

Visual aspects of an image or arrangement

What is composition? 
500

similar parts of a piece that have the same structure

What is parallelism?

500

exordium, narratio, confmatio 

What is classical oration

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