Key Terms
The specific features of texts, written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners in a given situation.
What is rhetoric?
The appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience.
What is pathos?
Like "conducting an inventory," this first canon of rhetoric is the art of generating material for a text.
What is invention?
Through understanding the importance of situational appropriateness, almost all questions regarding matters of style can at first be answered with this two-word response.
What is "It depends?"
A sentence with one independent clause and no dependent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
The implied meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly expressed "dictionary meaning."
What is connotation?
The dictionary definition of a word, in contrast to its implied meaning.
What is denotation?
This canon of rhetoric, which played a more significant role in rhetoric historically when the oral tradition was the primary means of communication, involves access to information and collective knowledge for use in composition.
What is Memory?
This canon of rhetoric is the presentation and format of a composition.
What is Delivery?
The facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion.
What is evidence?
A sentence with two or more independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
The specialized vocabulary of a particular group.
What is jargon?
This systematic invention strategy uses the 5Ws + H to generate material you write and comprehend what you read.
What is The Journalist's Questions?
This canon of rhetoric, which helps a writer order and structure the parts of a text, is the placement of ideas for effect in a spoken or writer text.
What is Arrangement?
The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator.
What is ethos?
A combination of two or more elements in a dramatistic pentad in order to invent material.
What is a ratio?
A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
This systematic invention strategy invites a speaker or reader to create identities for the act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose in a situation.
What is (Kenneth) Burke's (Dramatistic) Pentad?
This is why the first two canons of rhetoric are grouped together.
What is being related to the generation of texts?
A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/or complement.
What is a periodic sentence?
Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated.
What is an enthymeme?
Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.
What is a syllogism?
Possible and impossible, past fact, future fact, and greater and less are all examples of these types of topics, ordinary patterns in thinking used to generate material for oral/written discussion.
What are The Basic Topics?
This is why canons 3, 4, and 5 are grouped together.
What is being related to communicating arguments ideas, and perspectives?
A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement.
What is a loose sentence?