Rhetorical Analysis
What is the tool we use to identify the rhetorical situation?
What is SOAPSTONE? (subject, occasion, audience, purpose, style, and tone)
The correct number of sources to use in a synthesis essay...
What is 3?
The typical structure of an argument essay...
What is an introduction (thesis), body paragraphs (with claims and evidence), and conclusion?
The MCQ section consists of how many questions in how much time?
What is 45 questions in 1 hour?
The three rhetorical appeals introduced by Aristotle...
What are ethos, logos, and pathos?
When discussing rhetorical context, another word for "context" is...
What is situation?
You have to add this after synthesizing your sources....
What is your own commentary?
The amount of evidence needed for a good argument essay.
What is four?
The number of sections on the AP Lang exam.
What is two sections?
The term for specific examples, facts, or statistics that support a claim in an essay...
What is evidence?
The goal of a rhetorical analysis essay is to...
What is identify the author's argument and finding how they accomplished it?
The purpose of paraphrasing or quoting from a source...
What is to provide supporting evidence; to increase the author's credibility?
What you should be attempting to prove throughout your writing.
What is your claim/argument?
The two categories of questions in the MCQ.
What is reading and writing?
The term for a statement that opposes the claim in an argumentative essay...
What is a counterargument?
When you do rhetorical analysis, you have to look at a text from the perspective of both the _______ and the _______.
What is reader and writer?
True or False: Titles and publication information of sources give helpful clues.
True - Because you need to review the sources quickly the information that precedes the source s can assist in determining the position and perspective of the source.
Persuasive arguments may be organized _______ or _______ and include a call to action for the audience.
What is inductively or deductively?
The number of sources in the synthesis essay that are visual.
What is two?
Reading, Entertainment, History, Universal Truths, Government, Observation...
What is REHUGO?
"Writers often draw on exposition, narration, and persuasion to accomplish their..." (IA, p. 248)
What is purpose?
Combining information from different sources into an argument or conclusion...
What is synthesis?
Why is it important for writers to consider their audience when crafting an argumentative essay?
What is to tailor the argument and language to the expectations and values of the intended audience?
When is the sophistication point awarded to an essay? (description acceptable)
Demonstrates full understanding of the rhetorical situation, constructs a nuanced argument, uses a nuanced style, use strong rhetorical choices.
First, second, nevertheless, however, for example, as you can see, in conclusion.
What are transition words?