"What's the Sitch?"
The entity making a claim
Who/What is the speaker?
The definition of "appeal to logic."
What is, "An appeal to reason"?
Appeal to emotion can be defined as this.
What is, "Argument by emotion / using the beliefs and values of the audience"?
What is, (at least one of these is fine)
- Argument by character?
- Employing the speaker's personality, reputation, and ability to look trustworthy?
A set of specific types of devices the speaker uses to achieve his/her/their purpose is known as THIS.
What is/are rhetorical appeals?
The events that prompt a speaker to make a claim
What is the exigence?
Appeals to logic can include THESE... (list at least 2).
What are...
- Facts/stats, research, charts, graphs, expert sources, allusions, examples, repetition, anecdotes, analogies, diction, & syntax?
Appeals to emotion can include THESE (list at least two)
What are..
Figurative language, Imagery, Connotations, Allusions, Sensory details, Examples, Repetition, Anecdote, Analogies, Personal Testimony, and Diction and Syntax?
Appeals to credibility can include THESE (list at least two).
What are...
- Personal testimony, diction/syntax, sincerity, writer's experience, facts & statistics, concession, refutation, and reliable sources?
What is the primary audience?
What's happening (background) during the time period a claim is made
What is the context?
Appeals to logic can include allusions, which are known as THIS.
What are, "references to literature, history, religion, and culture"?
("References to outside things" is also accepted.)
When writing about emotional appeals, always be sure to specify THIS.
What is, Which emotion the audience should be feeling?
Patrick Henry's statement, "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it" is an example of THIS rhetorical appeal.
What is sincerity?
When Henry says, "For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery" he is using these appeals.
What is syntax & diction?
The definition of purpose
What is, "What the audience is supposed to UNDERSTAND and DO after experiencing the discourse"?
When Patrick Henry says, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" he is doing THIS.
What is conceding?
Hughes' lines, "I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart / I am the Negro bearing slavery's scares. / I am the red man driven from the land, / I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--" are an example of THIS (multiple options).
What is...
- Imagery?
- Diction/syntax?
- Repetition?
"They tell us sir, that we are weak; unable to cope ... But when shall we be stronger? ... Sir, we are not weak if we make a proepr use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power" is an example of THIS rhetorical appeal.
What is refutation?
What is appeal to logic?
The definition of rhetoric
What is, "Using language to construct meaning"?
Truth pointing out various biblical stories about women working with Jesus, then saying, "Man, where is your part? But the women are coming up..." can be considered THIS.
What is inductive reasoning?
When Sojourner Truth says, "And how came Jesus into the world? Through God who created him and woman who bore him" she is employing what kind of emotional appeal?
What is allusion? (Biblical allusion)
When Sojourner Truth says, "I am a woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?" she is appealing to credibility & emotion through THIS.
What is personal testimony/sincerity/diction & syntax?
The difference between inductive and deductive reasoning is THIS.
What is, "Inductive reasoning is making a general theory based on an observation, and deductive reasoning is making a claim based off a general theory"?