Rhetoric
What is rhetoric?
The art of persuasion
What does exploit mean?
To take advantage of
What explains how or why something happened?
Cause and Effect
What is the author's purpose?
The author's inspiration/reason for writing a text
What is an appeal to logic?
Logos
What is it to make something more important than other things?
Prioritize
What details a subject's characteristics?
Description Text Structure
What is summarizing?
Explaining only the most important details of a text/movie/etc.
What is an appeal to credibility?
Ethos
What is a person who supports and publicly campaigns for a particular cause, idea, or person?
Advocate
What presents a problem/series of problems with suggestions how to solve it?
Problem and solution text structure
What is paraphrasing?
Re-writing a paragraph, sentence, etc. in your own words
What is an appeal to emotion?
Pathos
What is small or insignificant?
Mere
What explains steps in a process?
Sequential
What is the author's perspective?
Their stance/point of view on a particular topic
What is a logical fallacy?
A biased or untrue statement
What is someone who protects guards or something else?
Husher
What presents facts, events, or details in which order they occurred in time?
Chronological text structure
What is a central idea?
The most important point an author makes in a text