Rhetorical Terms
What is a rhetorical choice?
An author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect.
What does SPACECAT stand for?
Speaker
Purpose
Audience
Context
Exigence
Choices
Appeals
Tone
Strategy of organizing information in essay/writing.
What should you avoid in argumentative thesis/essays?
Avoid absolute terms (such as always, never, everyone, will, etc.)
What is an Annotated Bibliography and what is its purpose?
An annotated bibliography is a list of sources that an author is planning to use in their writing. Each citation is followed by brief descriptive and evaluative paragraphs, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the author & reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
What is a work that functions on a symbolic level called?
Allegory
What is the last part of VSEE?
Explanation
What are 5 different types of modes of development?
Narration
Descriptive
Compare/contrast
Cause & effect
Definition
To outline your argument.
What does APA stand for?
American Psychological Association
What is a reference to another literary work called?
Allusion
What is tone? How is it conveyed?
A writer’s tone is the writer’s attitude or feeling about a subject, conveyed through word choice and writing style
What does a rhetorical analysis thesis HAVE TO BE/HAVE? List 3 things
Has to be a defensible claim
has to have the rhetorical moves/effects
Author's name ( whose work is being analyzed)
The genre & title genre of the work being analyzed
What types of evidence should you use in your AP argumentative essay?
Current events
History
Events
Literature
Pop culture
Sports
Science
What is the next thing that is due for your SP and when is it due?
SP rough draft- January 9th
What is the presentation of two contrasting images called? Hint: The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.
Antithesis
What is a claim? What are the types?
A defensible statement.
Fact, value, policy
What are modes of persuasion?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
What do you need to include after evidence?
Commentary / explanation
How many sources and which ones ( for Theology) do you need in your SP?
3 Catechism
2 Bible
2 Mag Doc.
6 non-theological
What is crafting sentences with items placed in comparable grammatical structures.
Parallelism
What are the 4 parts of rhetorical situation? What 4 parts must you take into consideration when doing a rhetorical analysis?
Exigence
Purpose
Audience
Context
In pre-writing stage of rhetorical analysis, what does TAG and C&C stand for?
Text, Author, Genre
Comand & conquer
What are different ways you can organize your evidence?
Chronological order
Cause/effect
Similar or contrasting causes or outcomes
Small scale to large scale or personal to universal (and vice versa)
What kind of a paper is your senior project?
Research based; problem solution argumentative paper.