What's the Sitch?
The entity making a claim
Who/What is the speaker?
These are rhetorical techniques a speaker uses to craft their argument (they indicate WHAT the author is doing!)
What are Methods of Development?
This is a type of argument structure many speakers use to organize their argument (it can indicate WHY the author is doing something in that part of their argument!)
What is the Classical Model?
A defensible position in response to a prompt
What is a claim?
The events that prompt a speaker to make a claim
What is the exigence?
Establishing a common meaning
What is Definition?
The area(s) of the argument that support the claim presented by the speaker.
What is the Confirmation?
What are contentions?
What's happening (background) during the time period a claim is made
What is the context?
Explaining how something is done
The definition of Refutation (specific)
What is, "The area of the argument where the speaker....
- Looks at the merits of other perspectives
- YET maintains his/her position
- BY proving these perspectives incorrect"?
You should think about this first when determining evidence to support your position.
What is the audience?
The definition of purpose
What is, "What the audience is supposed to UNDERSTAND and DO after experiencing the discourse"?
What is Division & Classification?
In THIS part of Taylor Swift's' "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" she writes,
"Well, maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much
But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up"
What is the Refutation?
This is language that allows your argument to be less absolute by providing conditions to either limit the argument and/or maximize how true the claim is.
What is a qualifier?
The definition of rhetoric
What is, "Using language to construct meaning"?
Anything a speaker USES to construct meaning
What are rhetorical devices?
In THIS part of Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," he says, "... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
What is the "So What"?
The acronym to help us remember evidence
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