SPACECAT
The group of people the speaker is trying to reach with their message
Who is the audience?
An appeal to the audience's emotion
What is pathos?
a short personal story
What is an anecdote?
call something to attention
What is: emphasize, highlight, stress, etc?
You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass. You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.
What is juxtaposition?
The author's attitude towards a subject
What is tone?
An appeal to logic using facts and statistics
What is logos?
A reference to history, literature, art, etc
What is an allusion?
provides information
What is cites, includes, enumerates, presents?
Chocolate is my Achilles' heel?
What is an allusion?
Deliberate "moves" the speaker makes to achieve their overall purpose
What are (rhetorical) choices?
An appeal to the author's credibility
What is ethos?
two opposing or contrasting words/ideas
What is juxtaposition?
The author uses diction....
What is the author's (tone word) diction...?
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
What are loaded words? (pathos)
The spark or catalyst that motivated the author to write
What is the exigence?
A print ad that displays a toddler in the driver seat while the dad hands her the keys uses this appeal
What is pathos?
using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance
What is parallel structure?
opens the reader's eyes to
What is forces the reader to consider?
Part of my Latina identity is the sound of merengue at all our family parties and the heart wrenching Spanish love songs that we enjoy. It is the memory of Saturday afternoon at the movies with my aunt and cousins watching Cantinflas, who is not Puerto Rican, but who was an icon Spanish comedian on par with Abbot and Costello of my generation.
What is an anecdote?
The happenings in the world related to the subject
What is the context?
A TV commercial that displays all the ingredients of the product on the screen uses this appeal
What is logos?
powerful diction that elicit an emotional response in the audience
What are loaded words?
The speaker uses pathos
What is the speaker appeals to the audience's sense of (insert emotion)?
There is no doubt, if you aim high enough, that you will be confronted by those who say that your efforts...
It is certain, if you aim high enough, that you will find your strongest beliefs ridiculed and challenged...
Inevitably, if you aim high enough, you will be buffeted by demands of family, friends and...
What is repetition?