Rhetoric
Name one product for which we watched an advertisement.
Pepsi, Subaru, Budweiser, Madden 17, Campbell Soup
The author uses this to try and get the reader's attention in the beginning of their work.
A hook
Define speaker.
The voice/communicator of a piece of work
One of the most famous writers of The Harlem Renaissance Movement.
Langston Hughes
Who did WeightWatchers choose for their spokesperson (representative)?
(HINT: She has a talk show and her own channel!)
Oprah Winfrey
The way a speaker tries to get the listener to want to solve a problem.
The speaker shows the benefits of taking action against a problem.
This is the main argument and topic of a piece of work
The subject
Founder of a popular African-American beauty product line. She eventually established her own company!
Madam C.J. Walker
What commercial did we watch that showed a father and his son?
Subaru
Satisfaction
Who or what is the audience?
The INTENDED group or individual the author is speaking to in their work
In what year did President Lincoln issue the "Emancipation Proclamation," the announcement declaring that all slaves would henceforth be free?
1863
We saw an advertisement for a tire company. What did they say was "riding on your tires?"
A baby.
An author gives this to the reader at the end of their work.
These things make up the "occasion" of a text
Date/time/location and what happened to cause the text to happen
What does the abbreviation "NAACP" stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Which product did Shaq try to sell in his advertisement?
IcyHot
The author presents this to the audience as they get to their main argument.
List the three different purposes of a piece of work
Persuade, inform, entertain
Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC, and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance, created this anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature.
The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925)