A writer should include _________ to make their rhetorical analysis fluent for the reader.
What are transitions.
100
This device gives human qualities/characteristics to inanimate objects/non-human subjects.
What is personification?
100
A statement that introduces your main ideas, generally in the introductory paragraph.
What is a thesis?
100
These are the elements represented in the acronym SOAPSTone.
What are speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and tone?
100
The author of a text strives to accomplish this.
What is the purpose?
200
This style of sentence writing allows for best clarity and emphasis.
What is concise writing?
200
This is the device used to refer to the author's choice of words in a text.
What is diction?
200
A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph that changes the subject and introduces the focus of the paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
200
A reader uses this strategy to determine the intent and content of a text.
What is a says/does analysis?
200
This element of the rhetorical situation is one author's must keep in mind to effectively accomplish their purpose.
What is the audience?
300
This tense should be used for analysis of speeches.
What is past tense?
300
This is the rhetorical term that refers to the author's attitude toward the subject of their writing.
What is tone?
300
These are the first and last sentences of a rhetorical analysis paper.
What are the hook/lead and clincher?
300
This is how a reader identifies the author's feelings and intentions of a piece without reader bias.
What is suspending judgment?
300
This term refers to whatever prompted the writer to produce the text.
What is the occasion?
400
Writers do this to evidence to make their sentences including evidence read fluently.
What is integrating and/or modifying evidence?
400
This rhetorical term describes the feeling felt by the reader of a text.
What is mood?
400
These elements are included in a thesis.
What are the author's name, the text, and the purpose of the text? (Could also say choices in craft that create effect)
400
This is how a reader identifies the most important rhetorical strategies/choices in a text.
What is look for patterns OR ask yourself questions OR define significant parts?
400
This word describes the similarities between the author and their intended audience.
What is common ground?
500
This part of speech (type of word) turns a verb into a noun and should be avoided in academic writing.
What is a gerund?
500
This rhetorical term is the repetition of conjunctions within a sentence for special emphasis.
What is polysyndeton?
500
This is the order of the elements in a typical body paragraph.
What is topic sentence, followed by transition into evidence, evidence, analysis of evidence, (REPEAT), concluding statement/transition to next paragraph.
500
This is the most important element of a text to discern when reading.
What is the author's purpose?
500
To fully appreciate why an author crafted a text the way they did, a reader must be aware of these elements of the rhetorical situation.
What is the occasion/historical context, the audience, the speaker, the message, and the purpose.