Rhetorical Situation
The term that describes why you are writing
What is Purpose?
This sentence controls the main idea of a paragraph
What is a topic statement/sentence?
This appeal targets emotions
What is Pathos?
In rhetorical analysis, this term describes how the author tries to persuade the audience
What are Rhetorical Strategies or Appeals?
A reason why annotated bibliographies are useful
What is organizing sources? What is showing credibility? What is a strengthening argument?
A part of the rhetorical situation that includes beliefs, norms, and environment
What is culture?
A thesis contains these qualities to qualify as a strong statement
What is clear, arguable, and specific?
This fallacy assumes “everyone else is doing it”
What is Bandwagon Fallacy?
An aspect of an image that guides how viewers “move” through an image
What is Arrangement?
In MLA style these two pieces of information usually appear in an in-text citation
What is the author's last name and page number?
When you text a friend vs. email a professor, you change your tone, words, and structure
What is Rhetorical Situation?
Introducing a new idea and or breaking up a complex paragraph
What is beginning a new paragraph?
A reasoning strategy used to compare two unlike things
What is an Analogy?
A rhetorical concept referred to as “timeliness”
What is Kairos?
This term refers to an author’s background, beliefs, or perspective that may shape how they present information
What is Bias?
Your intentions don’t match your execution and creates a mismatch
What is my audience?
An important question a thesis should answer to show significance
This is a fallacy in which a person attacks the speaker rather than the argument
What is Ad Hominem?
A visual element with cultural meaning
What is a Visual Symbol?
Focuses on "fixing" minor issues like grammar, mechanics, and punctuation
What is Editing?
All six of these elements define a rhetorical situation
What are Author, Audience, Purpose, Message, Context, and Culture?
Four components of a fully developed paragraph
What is a topic sentence, evidence, explanation, and concluding sentence?
Name all four classical rhetorical strategies
What are Ethos, Pathos, Logos, and Kairos?
Applying this rhetorical term, considers that modern readers are more impatient than ever and have short attention spans
What is Exigency?
Usually, the first step in the writing process
What is thinking?