Rhetorical Situation
This the part of the rhetorical situation is what the writer hopes to accomplish with it
Purpose
This is another word for the main overarching claim a writer is seeking to defend or prove by using reasoning supported by evidence.
Thesis
True or False: All arguments need to explicitly address the counterclaim.
False
This method of development organizes ideas by tracing how one event, action, or condition produces another.
Cause-Effect
Synecdoche is a type of this that involves understanding one thing with another, using a part for the whole or the whole for the part.
Metonymy
Because this aspect of the rhetorical situation includes time, place, and occasion, it explains why an argument written during wartime may differ dramatically from one written during peace.
Context
A paragraph that includes evidence but fails to explain the significance of that evidence is missing this crucial component.
Commentary
Commentary serves this function within an argument.
Explaining the significance and relevance of evidence
This mode establishes the meaning of a term or concept.
Definition
Lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
Asyndeton
This part of the rhetorical situation has shared as well as individual beliefs, values, needs, and backgrounds.
The audience
This is the logical sequence of ideas that connects a writer’s claims, evidence, and commentary back to the thesis.
Line of Reasoning
To show a connection, equality, or balance.
This pattern organizes information according to physical space or location.
Spatial Order
Ascribing human qualities to inhuman objects, phenomena, and beings; a form of personification.
Anthropomorphism
Time, place, and occasion.
These are the purposes of transition words.
Coherence and relationship between ideas
This is the difference the difference between a refutation and a rebuttal.
Refutation: proving the claim is invalid, inaccurate, or false.
Rebuttal: challenging a claim's reasoning reasoning, interpretation, or evidence
Tracing the development of The Hall of Presidents from its earliest version to the present uses this organizational strategy.
Chronological order
Understatement by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed. For example, “I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations” (Martin Luther King, Jr).
Litotes
This is the part of a rhetorical situation that directly and specificall inspires, stimulates, or provokes the author to create the text.
Exigence
An essay may contain excellent evidence but still score weakly in reasoning if the writer fails to establish these logical relationships.
Evidence, claims, and thesis
This is the difference between position and perspective.
Position: Stance
Perspective: the lens, background, or viewpoint shaping the argument
Explaining how scientists reconstruct Velociraptor hunting behavior through fossils and comparisons exemplifies this mode.
Process Analysis
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. For example, “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
Antistrophe