Rhetorical Strategies, Appeals
The three appeals, and explanations for what they are.
What is ethos, credibility of the speaker, logos, use of statistics, facts, history, logical reasoning, and pathos, use of emotion?
This device repeats a word at the beginning of each sentence, for multiple sentences in a row.
What is anaphora?
Can be used to evoke in your audience a strong understanding and perhaps empathy with the events happening to the people in the story.
What is a narrative?
The parts of SPACECAT.
Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence, Choices, Appeals, Tone
This portion of a passage tends to relate the main argument to reality, while tying up any loose ends.
What is the conclusion?
This rhetorical appeal is used when an author uses a specific structure or rhetorical mode to be more convincing.
What is logos?
These devices either use many conjunctions in a row, or use none at all.
What is polysyndeton and asyndeton?
This rhetorical mode shows or demonstrates something clearly through the use of evidence and examples.
What is example OR illustration OR exemplification?
This term refers to the way the author feels about the subject being written.
What is tone?
These are the five main components of a device-driven thesis statement.
What are the writer, strong verb, rhetorical devices, purpose, and message.
This arrangement of words and sentences helps set the voice/tone of the text.
What is syntax?
Having identical or very similar sentence structure. Example: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
What is parallel structure?
This rhetorical mode shows a scene, a specific place, or a person to the reader, to make it come alive.
What is description?
Refers to the time, place, and the climate in which the text occurs, or what is happening in society at the time.
What is context?
The structure of a synthesis and/or argumentative essay.
What is introduction/thesis, 2 body paragraphs, counterargument, and conclusion?
These two components help to create an author’s voice and/or persona in a text.
What is tone and diction?
This strategy takes two contrasting ideas and put them side by side for contrast.
What is juxtaposition OR antithesis?
The purpose of this rhetorical mode is to explain a word or concept in a way that has larger implications for society.
What is definition?
This term refers to the event/situation that provokes the writer to write the message.
What is exigence?
The most important part of a rhetorical analysis essay is not only explaining and identifying the rhetorical devices and appeals, but these 2 other things.
What is the effect on the audience, and connection to author's purpose?
These are three elements make up an author’s style.
What is tone, diction, syntax, and/or figurative language?
Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order.
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.” (Moliere)
What is antimetabole?
This rhetorical mode explains either how to do something or how something was done, in order to detail a personal experience with something.
What is process analysis?
This part of the rhetorical situation makes a connection between the writer and the audience.
What is the purpose and/or message?
What CHORES (the types of evidence for an argumentative essay) stands for.
What is Current Events, History, Observations, Readings, Experience, and Sports/Science?