Rhetorical Situation
This acronym and mnemonic (memory aid) lists the different elements of the rhetorical situation, or future advances in feline astronomical achievement.
What is SPACECAT?
Before you make an argument - what you say - you first need to present this to establish how your argument connects with a larger conversation or debate.
What is THEY SAY?
This essay element, essential to all academic writing, earns an entire point on the AP Exam.
What is a THESIS?
These three adjectives list a basic way to organize and order your arguments and evidence effectively in a paragraph.
What is GOOD, BETTER, BEST?
These seven coordinating conjunctions, when used with a comma, can be used to connect two different sentences.
What are FANBOYS?
This 90s Sci-Fi movie provides an effective metaphor for how rhetoric is the secret "code" behind our everyday reality.
What is THE MATRIX?
This technique is when you explicitly agree with a point that your opponent is making in order to build your credibility and ultimately build an even stronger argument.
What is CONCESSION?
An essay introduction first needs to get the readers' attention with this creative element of the essay.
What is a HOOK?
This type of reasoning builds specific examples, evidence, or claims into a larger conclusion.
What is INDUCTIVE?
Lists, examples, definitions, or summaries are all things that can be introduced with this punctuation mark, not to be confused with a very intimate bodily organ.
What is a COLON?
This term describes the rhetor's attitude towards their subject.
What is TONE?
This technique is when you acknowledge potential objections or responses to your argument before your opponent can bring them up. It also names the reason why little kids can't sleep on the night before Christmas.
What is ANTICIPATION?
In the "Sandwich" model of writing a body paragraph, the top slice of bread represents this essay element.
What is a TOPIC SENTENCE?
"If you start thinking it's OK to fart in class, next thing you know, you'll think it's OK to murder somebody" is an example of this logical fallacy.
What is SLIPPERY SLOPE?
Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer all agree that this sentence is using this type of comma.
What is SERIAL COMMA?
These three different appeals name what a rhetor needs to change in persuading an audience.
What is MIND, MOOD, and MOTIVATION?
This technique is when you specifically respond to an opponent's objection before they have made it.
What is ANTICIPATION?
What is COMMENTARY?
What is POINT-BY-POINT?
'Swimming', 'talking', 'describing', 'discombobulating' are all examples of this type of word, which can be used to layer additional actions onto a basic sentence.
What is a PARTICIPLE?
This term describes the external "spark" that causes a rhetor to respond with a persuasive argument.
What is EXIGENCE?
This technique is when you summarize an opponents argument in order to point out flaws in its reasoning or refocus the issue
What is QUALIFY?
This term describes the imaginary or specified people or arguments that an essay is in conversation with.
What is INTERLOCUTER?
This line of reasoning is an especially effective choice for making arguments about historical and scientific topics, and has nothing to do with dress-down days.
What is CAUSAL?
Although they might not connect complete sentences like co-coordinating conjunctions, WABBITS are these type of conjunctions because they introduce a clause that can't stand alone as a sentence.
What is SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS?