Rhetorical Situations
Rhetorical Analysis
Persuasive Arguments
Synthesis
Acronyms
100
The person or persona that delivers the rhetoric - more than just their name, who are they and what are their credentials?
Who is the speaker?
100
The attitude of the speaker towards the subject and an effect of the choices that the speaker makes.
What is tone?
100
In an argument, the sequence of reasons that are logically organized and come together to support a claim
What is a line of reasoning?
100
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How many sources from the prompt do you HAVE to use in your argument?
100
The acronym that is used to analyze a piece of rhetoric and its rhetorical situation (just the word, not the parts).
What is SPACE CAT?
200
The reason that the speaker is delivering their rhetoric - what they hope to get out of it?
What is the purpose?
200
Telling a brief story, strong and emotional diction, imagery, and illustrations might appeal to this.
What is pathos (or the audience's emotions)?
200
An explicit direction from the speaker for the audience to do something.
What is a call to action?
200
A photograph would be described as this kind of visual source.
What is qualitative?
200
The parts of the acronym that should be used to write a body paragraph.
What are Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning?
300
The set of circumstances, occasion, or current events that may affect the rhetoric.
What is context?
300
Statistics, experiments, expert testimony, quotations, examples, and analogies are all rhetorical choices that may appeal to this.
What is logos (the audience's reasoning)?
300
An explanation of how your evidence connects to your reasons and, ultimately, your claim; the last part of a CER chunk.
What is reasoning?
300
The four ways you can respond to evidence from sources.
What are corroborating, refuting, rebutting, or conceding?
300
The parts of OPTIC I would need to use to analyze this visual source.
What is overview, parts, title, inference, conclusion?
400
The urgent problem or issue that is being addressed by a piece of rhetoric; why NOW?
What is exigence?
400
Personal experience, quotation, pronouns like "we" and "us," and expert testimony could all appeal to this.
What is ethos (the credibility of the speaker or the relationship between the speaker and audience)?
400
Bringing up a point that those who disagree with you make in order to disprove that point and therefore strengthen your own argument.
What is refuting?
Also accepted: Acknowledging the opposition, counterarguments, and refutation
400
Economics, safety, ethics, environment, international impact, technology, and time
What are factors (that you can use to generate reasons for an argument)? $SEEITT
400
The parts of the acronym that give you the types of evidence you can use from your own background knowledge when you don't have access to sources or the internet.
What are current events, history, observations, reading, entertainment, and situations?
500
The part of the rhetorical situation that plays the BIGGEST role in determining the choices that the speaker makes.
What is the audience?
500
The structure and organization of sentences using punctuation; when analyzed, often the length of sentences in relation to preceding or following sentences.
What is syntax?
500
A method of organization for a persuasive argument that starts with the context and claim, gives reasons, and ends with a call to action. This method is used when you believe that your audience AGREES with you.
What is deductive reasoning?
500
This citation format is used for humanities and is therefore used in the class. In-text citations in this format have the author's last name and page numbers, if applicable.
What is MLA formatting?
500
The parts of the acronym that are used to analyze a piece of rhetoric and its rhetorical situation.
What are speaker, purpose, audience, context, exigence, choices, appeals, and tone?