Elements of Rhetoric
The people (or person) receiving the rhetoric.
What is the audience?
A spoken or written account of connected events.
What is a narrative?
This type of research refers to the collection of original data directly by a researcher.
What is primary research?
In a paragraph, this refers to the part that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
What is the topic sentence?
The part of an APA paper that briefly summarizes the paper's content.
What is the abstract?
The person (or people) doing the rhetoric.
What is the rhetor?
The mode that refers to communication via sound.
What is aural?
The part of a Case Study paper where you attach your primary research methods.
This is a genre of writing that uses literary techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
What is creative nonfiction?
The goal of the main character in Aimee Bender's Off.
What is to kiss three men at her friend's party?
The reason(s) the rhetor is making this specific argument for this specific audience.
What is the purpose?
In Freytag's Pyramid, this term refers to the peak of the conflict.
What is the climax?
For in-text citations, we use this method to reference the citation on our references page.
What is the author-date method?
The unique style, personality, or perspective that comes through a writer's work.
What is voice?
The author of The Anthropocene Reviewed.
Who is John Green?
The message the rhetor is sending to their audience.
What is the argument?
The mode that refers to the way of communicating meaning through movement, such as body language, facial expressions, hand gestures, and physical proximity.
What is gestural?
The discussion section of a Case Study paper should do what with primary and secondary research?
What is synthesize?
This term refers to the cause-and-effect relationship between events in a narrative.
What is causality?
According to Kurt Vonnegut, "Every character should want something, even if it is only a blank.”
What is a glass of water?
The circumstances that led to the need for the argument.
What is exigence?
A type of creative nonfiction essay that weaves together multiple threads of ideas to create a cohesive whole.
What is a braided essay?
This type of question in a survey allows for a more personal response.
What is an open question?
In literature, this term refers to the attitude or mood a writer conveys, and how that attitude is expressed through word choice, sentence structure, and punctuation.
What is tone?
The two key aspects of multiliteracy are...
1. Multimodal Forms of Linguistic Expression and Representation, and...
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What is linguistic diversity?