Rhetoric 1
The appeal to character or morals.
What is an appeal to ethos?
The appeal to emotions.
What is the appeal to Pathos?
These are the three elements of an essay.
What are the introduction, the body, and the conclusion?
This item communicates the essay’s purpose with clear and concise wording; it often states a stance.
What is the thesis?
A child covered in bug bites.
What is an appeal to pathos?
The appeal to reason.
What is the appeal to Logos?
He developed the rhetorical triangle.
Who is Aristotle?
This section in an essay provides background information on the text's topic and introduces the thesis.
What is the introduction?
This section supports the thesis by clearly stating a main point in the discussion as it announces what the paragraph will be about.
What is the Topic Sentence?
A doctor describes his credentials.
What is an appeal to ethos?
He developed the Rhetorical Situation.
Who is Lloyd Bitzer?
The idea that a good rhetor will know when it is the right time to make an argument
What is Kairos?
This type of thesis encompasses the entire argument in a concise statement without naming each piece of evidence that the author plans to use
What is the Umbrella Thesis?
This concerns itself with the flow of sentences and paragraphs from one to another; it involves the tying together of old information and new.
What is Cohesion?
A description of past trauma.
What is an appeal to pathos?
This occurs when someone closely read a text and determine several characteristics about it by considering the rhetorical situation and the rhetorical appeals.
What is a rhetorical analysis?
This is an arguable statement, something that needs to be proven and which is found in every argument.
What is the claim?
These are the 4 stages of writing.
What are the prewriting/brainstorming stage, the drafting stage, the revision/editing stage, and the publishing stage?
These two types of reasoning are the most used in argumentative writing.
What are deductive and inductive reasoning?
A graph breaking down information and percentages.
What is an appeal to logos?
What are the speaker/writer, the audience/reader, the text, the topic/subject, and the purpose/context?
These are the 4 types of arguments more commonly used.
What are arguments to inform, to mediate, to convince, and to persuade?
Doing this will make a thesis stronger.
What is use a specific noun, pick an active verb, and choose a specific modifier?
A weak thesis does this.
What is makes no claim, is a statement of fact, restates conventional wisdom, offers personal conviction as the basis for the claim, or makes an overly broad claim?
A breakdown of causes and effects.
What is an appeal to logos?