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Sentence Structure
Emotive Lang. Terms
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Rhetoric 101
Imbedding Quotes
100
This structure contains the most basic components necessary for a complete sentence, supplying just one subject and one predicate.
What is a simple sentence?
100
This emotive language term compares two (usually unlike things) without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
100
This rhetorical appeal should be used with caution, as it lacks substance and is often used to manipulate people.
What is pathos?
100
The father of rhetoric AND the ancient culture from which he hails.
What is Aristotle AND Ancient Greece
100
A quote that is not properly imbedded into writing but, rather, remains completely unconnected to the writer's sentences.
What is a drop quote?
200
This type of sentence structure is represented by the following example: "in the oven"
What is a prepositional phrase?
200
This emotive language term is represented by the following example: I followed the fellow until my feet could no longer support my weight.
What is alliteration?
200
This way of appealing to ethos, pathos, or logos is represented in the following example: "I want to be a Kentucky Senator because Kentucky boasts the finest citizens in all of America. I would be honored to have the opportunity to represent folks like you in Congress."
What is goodwill towards audience?
200
These components of the rhetorical situation are represented by the mnemonic device "SOAPSTone."
What are speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and (duh) tone?
200
A quote that is imbedded into a writer's sentences using signal words.
What is a partially imbedded quote?
300
This sentence structure is represented by the following example: "Because I hadn't eaten,"
What is a dependent clause?
300
This emotive language term is represented by the following example: The man's fingernails were yellowed and untrimmed and when he walked by me I nearly choked on the smell of stale cigar smoke that streamed from his clothing.
What is imagery?
300
These two writing elements may be manipulated in order to indirectly appeal to pathos.
What are diction and syntax?
300
These two terms are components of the rhetorical situation. One is drawn from the rhetorical triangle, and one is drawn from SOAPSTone. They essentially play the same role in the rhetorical situation (and that role is rarely very important).
What are context and occasion?
300
This kind of quote is represented in the following example: Poe wears away the audience's sense of security gradually over the course of numerous morose musings, such as his lament that "evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."
What is a partially imbedded quote?
400
This part of speech is used to join two independent clauses.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
400
A reference to a person, thing, work, or idea (that the speaker assumes the audience has some knowledge of) that is used in order to inform the subject being discussed.
What is an allusion?
400
Three ways to appeal to ethos other than expressing goodwill towards the audience.
What are shared values, knowledge/ethics, and ethics/morality?
400
The two major rhetorical purposes.
What are persuade and inform?
400
This kind of quote is represented by the following example: Poe walks the audience through complex, serpentine sentences that slow the reader's pace, perfectly mirroring his character's slow progression through "gloomy, gray, hereditary halls."
What is a fully imbedded quote?
500
This structure is composed of two independent clauses that are joined to at least one dependent clause.
What is a compound complex sentence?
500
This emotive language term is represented in the following example: Before you go to the store, please take the trash out.
What is assonance?
500
The four major ways to appeal to Logos.
What are supplying facts and statistics, giving reasons, giving examples, and supplying expert testimony?
500
The five major components of rhetoric.
What are invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery?
500
This punctuation mark may be used to correct a drop quote very easily.
What is a colon?