Terminology
This person is associated with "ethos" on the rhetorical triangle.
Who is the writer?
"40% of adults do not understand statistics" is an example of:
what is evidence?
What is a claim?
This is the exigence in Consider the Lobster.
What is DFW seeing the lobsters suffering in the tank at the festival?
This is the color of spider blood.
What is clear?
These have a shared set of beliefs, values or traits and can often be inferred from the text.
Who is the audience?
"It's important to support our president so we can be a united country" is an example of:
what is rationale or reasoning?
This is an example of a kind of rhetorical text.
What is a TV show, song, speech, essay, lesson, textbook, political cartoon, regular cartoon...
This is the primary difference in the writers/ speakers for "Consider the Lobster" and "JFK's Inaugeral Address".
What is the same writer/ speaker versus different writer/ speaker (ie, JFK was the speaker but not technically the writer).
This is the original purpose of tomato sauce.
Tomato sauce was originally a medicine for jaundice and indigestion.
This is the event, thought or experience that prompts a writer to create a text.
What is the exigence?
This is the difference between rationale/ reasoning and evidence?
what is explanation versus proof?
This is an idea or logic used to support a claim.
What is a reason?
These are two rhetorical devices used often in the Melon essay.
What are parallelism and contrast?
This was the original function of the roller coaster.
What is preventing Americans from sinning?
This is born from the exigence, and focuses the message.
What is the purpose?
This is an example of evidence drawn from Consider the Lobster.
Varies...
These are the SEVEN primary parts of a typical essay.
Intro/ Thesis statement/ claim, reasons, evidence, rationale/ reasoning, counterclaim, rebuttal, conclusion/ call to action
What are direct quote, paraphrase and summary?
OR
What are observational, anecdotal, citation/ quote, statistical, relational?
This vegetable remnant was the original "toilet paper".
What is a corn cob?
One of these things explains a reason, while the other provides concrete details to support a reason.
What are rationale/ reasoning and evidence?
This is an example of evidence drawn from "Living Like Weasels"
varies (anecdotal, primarily)
This is both the most common and logically weakest form of support in a rhetorical text.
What is anecdotal evidence?
The "Melon" essay is unique in that is can be stylistically identified as this type of essay.
What is narrative?
Some sea slugs shoot these out to defend themselves.
What are internal organs?