The Rhetor
the character of a rhetor performed in the rhetorical act and known by the audience because of prior interactions.
What is Ethos?
The definition of Symbolic Action.
What is Expressive Human Action?
If you could speak to your past self, what would you say?
What is Prompt #8
What we talked about on the balcony in late August.
What are symbols?
Language used in the real world to confuse or deliberately distort its actual meaning rather than to achieve understanding.
What is Doublespeak?
The emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions.
What is Pathos?
Symbols such as pictures, images, objects, artifacts, and actions.
What are Visual Symbols?
Select one of our previous speech prompts and revisit the topic.
What is Prompt #9?
The traumatic event surrounding GWB.
What is 9/11?
A word used to denote a thing in a way that avoided connotations of harshness or unpleasantness.
What is a Euphemism?
The appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.
What is Logos?
Symbols found in language.
What are Verbal Symbols?
Describe a time that you, looking back, wish you would have spoken up.
What is Prompt #5?
The name of the game we continuously play in class.
What is Scattergories?
Language designed to make the ordinary seem extraordinary.
What is Inflated Language?
The ethos, roles, identity, authority, and image a rhetor constructs and performs.
What is Persona?
A communicative process through which people are unified into a whole on the basis of common interests or characteristics.
What is Identification?
Partner up. You are recognizing your partner for their greatest achievement.
What is Prompt #4?
The answer to the question? Why have we debated such ambiguous questions in class?
What is...
Seeing another's perspective.
Those are the questions you'll face in life.
Sentences that use a passive verb in order to dented the agent of action.
What are Truncated Passives?
The physical and/or behavioral attributes that make a person recognizable as a member of a group.
What is Identity?
Reality as understood through the symbols humans use to represent it.
What is Social Reality?
Describe a day that you would consider to be terrible, even though others didn't believe it to be so.
What is Prompt #3?
Mr. Madeley's favorite movie, as presented during the first class period.
What is Saving Private Ryan?
An example would be:
"A Special Encore Presentation."
What is Inflated Language?