Rhetorical Strategies
Rhetorical Situation
Rhetorical Analysis Rubric
Important Vocabulary
Rhetorical Appeals
100

A speaker discussing charts and graphs is an example of what rhetorical strategy?

What is data?

100

The author of the text.

What is speaker?

100

You are asked to analyze the speaker's use of these in a rhetorical analysis essay.

What are rhetorical strategies?

100

The emotion, feeling, or attitude of the text.

What is tone?
100

Logic is an example of this rhetorical appeal.

What is logos?

200

A speaker using powerful words is an example of what rhetorical strategy?

What is loaded language?

200

Those that the speaker is addressing. 

What is the audience?

200

You must analyze this many rhetorical strategies in your rhetorical analysis essay to receive 4 points in evidence and commentary.

What is two?

200

 The set of reasons used in order to reach a conclusion or support your thesis.

What is line of reasoning?

200

Loaded language is an example of this rhetorical appeal.

What is pathos?

300

Beginning a text with an upbeat feeling and ending it with an angry one is an example of what rhetorical strategy?

What is tonal shift?

300

What the audience wants the audience to believe, know, feel, or do.

What is purpose?

300

I must use this type of evidence to receive 2+ points in evidence and commentary. 

What are textual references?

300

The literal or primary meaning of a word.

What is denotation?

300

Addressing opposing views is an example of this rhetorical appeal.

What is logos?

400
A speaker writing in a way that attempts to make the audience excited, enraged, empathetic, etc. is an example of what rhetorical strategy?

What is inflating emotions?

400
People who encounter a text but were not the intended audience.

What is secondary audience?

400

I will earn this many points if I give my opinion and do not support it with any textual evidence.

What is 0 points?

400

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

What is connotation?

400

Connecting to the audience through common values and experiences is an example of this appeal.

What is ethos?

500
A description or explanation of how the speaker identifies themselves is an example of what rhetorical strategy?

What is personal identity?

500

The spark or event that caused the speaker to produce the text.

What is exigence?

500

A generalization of evidence, little to no explanation of rhetorical strategies, and a summary of the text will earn this many points in evidence and commentary.

What is 1 point?

500

The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

What is diction?

500

Humility is an example of this rhetorical appeal.

What is ethos?