Rhetorical Appeals
The art of speaking or writing effectively or the art of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
The last paragraph of your essay.
What is the conclusion?
These vocabulary questions provide clues to the words' meaning in the surrounding sentences.
What are vocab in context questions?
Every sentence has these 2 components.
What are a subject and a predicate (verb)?
Any visually represented data including charts, graphs, tables.
What are infographics?
Students analyze the author's use of these appeals to create a persuasive argument.
What are rhetorical appeals? (or rhetorical strategies)
The amount of time you have to complete the essay.
What is 50 minutes?
The central or core of a word, often traced back to Greek or Latin.
What are roots?
She, he, they, him, her, us, we, it, etc.
What are pronouns?
A strategy where you methodically cross out answers that can't possibly be correct.
What is process of elimination?
Ethos is an appeal to this.
What is credibility?
Found in the introduction, this statement outlines your entire essay in a nutshell.
What is a claim or thesis?
The add-on that can come before a word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
Function to modify a verb and end in -ly.
What are adverbs?
To persuade, to inform, or to entertain.
What are the purposes of a text?
The appeal to emotion.
What is pathos?
Typically 650-850 words in length the text you are to analyze for the essay is this type of writing.
What is argument?
A suffix can help you determine this about a vocabulary word.
What is part of speech?
Describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
You can do this with nonfiction texts but should read more closely with fiction texts.
What is skimming?
Facts, data, evidence, statistics all help the author appeal to the readers' sense of this.
What is logic (or logos)?
These paragraphs should include:
topic sentence
evidence from the text
explanation of evidence (context)
reasoning (how the evidence is working)
What are body paragraphs?
The number of vocabulary questions you'll see for each passage on the reading section of the SAT.
What is two?
Can stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
About how long should you spend on each passage and corresponding questions?
Roughly 12 minutes. (There are 5 passages on the reading section and you have 65 minutes.)