The Rhetorical Situation
History of Rhetoric
Rhetorical Appeals
Rhetorical Evidence
Rhetorical Devices/Terms
100

This is the shape that is usually used to make a diagram of the Rhetorical Situation.

What is a triangle?

100

The art of persuasive communication.

What is Rhetoric?

100

This is the appeal to an audience's emotions.

What is Pathos?

100

These are the three different types of evidence you could use to persuade an audience.

What are data/statistics, testimonials, and anecdotes?

100

Using exaggerated terms/words for a specific purpose.

What is hyperbole?

200

These are the three basic elements of the Rhetorical Situation.

What are the speaker/writer (communicator), the audience/reader, and the content/text?

200

This philosopher was the first to codify and organize the study of Rhetoric and is credited with being the "Father of Rhetoric".

Who was Aristotle?

200

This is the appeal to an audience's sense of logic and reasoning.

What is Logos?

200

This type of evidence usually works best to develop the logos appeal to an audience.

What is data/statistics?

200

A word that, when spoken aloud, sounds like its definition.

What is an onomatopoeia?

300

This element is most associated with the ethos appeal.

What is the speaker/writer (communicator)?

300

This philosopher felt that rhetoric was useful only for DECEIVING people or hiding flaws, rather than encouraging self-improvement.

Who was Plato?

300

This is an appeal to an audience's sense of the speaker's/writer's credibility, trustworthiness, or authority.

What is Ethos?

300

This type of evidence is usually best for developing ethos appeal with an audience.

What is a testimonial?

300

A short story about a real (or at least realistic) person or event.

What is an anecdote?
400

This element is most closely associated with the pathos appeal.

What is the audience/reader?

400

This is the century when the study of Rhetoric was first organized, codified, and formalized.

What is the 300s BCE ?

400

Using an organized, sensible structure when writing an essay will develop these two appeals with your audience.

What are Logos and Ethos?

400

This type of evidence is effective for developing the pathos appeal with an audience.

What is an anecdote?

400

This rhetorical device involves the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive sentences.

What is anaphora?

500

This element is most associated with the logos appeal.

What is the content/text?

500

This, the 4th appeal originally associated with the study of Rhetoric, is no longer emphasized in studying the subject of rhetoric.

What is Kairos?

500

Using poetic language and/or imagery effectively will develop which two appeals with your audience?

What are Pathos and Ethos?

500

If the data/statistics you use are from a credible, trustworthy source and you cite the data correctly, you are developing these two appeals.

What are Logos and Ethos?

500

The speaker or writer's motivation for communicating a message to an audience – the 'E' of SPACE CAT.

What is Exigence?