Rhetoric Appeals
Appeals to an audience's emotions.
Pathos
Sets the stage by outlining context and information that is key to understanding.
Background information
System that organizes evidence and its corresponding outcome
Cause and effect
The author's, narrator's, or speaker's attitude toward the subject; shaped by diction, syntax, imagery, and details.
Tone
Progression of claims, evidence, and commentary that supports an argument or thesis.
Line of reasoning.
Appeals to logic, reason, and intellect.
Logos
Analyzing two or more texts, characters, or themes to find similarities and differences.
Compare and contrast
Argument that opposes or challenges an author's main thesis
Counterclaim
Syntactical Schemes
Logical fallacy where an opponent's character, motive, or personal attributes are attacked instead of addressing the actual issue of an argument.
Ad hominem
Appeals to credibility, character, and authority.
Ethos
Method or voice used to convey a story, acting as a bridge between events and the audience.
Narration
Summarizes key findings, synthesizes existing knowledge, reinforces significance.
Conclusion
Recurring conventions, plot devices, or figurative language techniques used to enhance stories by setting a reader's expectations and enforcing narrative familiarity.
Literary Tropes
Consistent grammatical structure, rhythm, or sound to balance paired words, phrases, or clauses to create a memorable, rhythmic, and cohesive pattern.
Parallelism
Combination of ideas to form theory or idea.
Synthesis.
Listing details, items, or ideas in sequence to enhance description, create a rhythm, or emphasize a point.
Enumeration
Vivid, descriptive language that appeals to human senses
Imagery
Uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and critisize human vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings.
Satire
Sentence with a subject and a verb, acting as an independent sentence & a sentence lacking a subject and verb, acting as a part of speech.
Clauses and phrases.
Perception of character displayed.
Persona
Vivid language and sensory details to paint a picture in reader's mind of a person, place, object, or scene.
Description
Intentional selection of words to convey meaning and tone to shape the reader's emotional response.
Word choice/ Diction
Artistic, deliberate use of words, syntax, and style by an author to create meaning, evoke emotion, and construct a unique voice.
Language
Grammatical error where a verbal phrase unintentionally modifies the wrong noun - or no noun at all - because the intended subject is missing or misplaced.
Dangling participle