Rhetorical Situation
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
What is the author's attitude towards the subject referred to as in literature?
tone
Asserts that specific courses of action should be instituted as solutions to problems
Claim/Thesis
What are the three main points of the rhetorical triangle?
Speaker
Audience
Subject
A question not answered by the writer because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no. It is used for effect, emphasis, or provocation, or for drawing a conclusionary statement from the facts at hand.
What type of words should you be using when creating your thesis for a rhetorical analysis essay?
verbs
Explain the difference between ethos, logos and pathos.
Pathos is an emotional appeal
Logos is a logical appeal
Ethos is appealing to one's morals and values
Compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one.
Analogy
Arguable
DOUBLE POINTs
Explain the difference between rhetorical appeals and rhetorical choices
rhetorical choices help the author create the rhetorical appeal
A personal story
personal anecdote
How many key points should you have in each essay type?
Two for synthesis
Three for rhetorical analysis
Three for argumentative
Explain the difference between author's purpose and exigence
Exigence is what inspired the author to create the text while author's purpose is what the author wants the audience to walk away thinking/feeling.
DOUBLE POINTS
the repetition of grammatical elements in a piece of writing to create a harmonious effect. Sometimes, it involves repeating the exact same words, such as in the common phrases “easy come, easy go” and “veni, vidi, vici” (“I came, I saw, I conquered”).
Parallelism
Explain the difference in the body paragraphs of a synthesis essay versus those of rhetorical analysis and argumentative
topic sentence, evidence, commentary, evidence, commentary
whereas, the rhetorical analysis and argumentative are
topic sentence, evidence, commentary