Definitions/Concepts
Who made the Rhetorical triangle? What is the Rhetorical Triangle? What is included in the rhetorical triangle?
Audience, Tone, Content - Aristotle
•Major Premise: People who burn flags are unpatriotic.
•Minor Premise: Sara burned a flag.
•Conclusion: Sara is unpatriotic.
What is rhetorical appeal here?
Deductive Reasoning
"There’s Clara, who should be joyful — she has no financial worries and many excellent college options — but is bullied by her parents to bypass Middlebury, which she prefers, for Yale, which is yet more exclusive." What kind of rhetorical appeal is being used here? What rhetorical technique is being used here?
Pathos + Anecdote
"By this visual imagery, it is obvious that everyone would agree that smoking has a negative effect."
What is the problem here? Indicate the two problems.
Everyone = too vague of an audience.
Obvious = might also be too much of an assumption.
What is in the Toulmin model?
Claim, Data, Warrant, Qualifier, Backing, Rebuttal
•It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. (Chief Joseph, “I Will I Fight No More Forever,” October 5, 1877)
What kind of rhetorical appeal is being used here, and what words can you draw from here that make you think so?
Pathos is being used here, particularly from words such as "the little children are freezing to death." The ethos can also be proven by the narrator of this sentence, "Chief Joseph," in how he will fight no longer because of their situation, even though he is the leader.
"What happens when a state adopts a campus free speech law?" What is the tone of this statement? What does the question alone try to say?
The technique being used here is a rhetorical question -- and most likely, the question is provoking a negative sentiment by saying that when a state adopts a campus free speech law - it most likely will not go right.
"Katy Perry's advertisement provokes viewers to think about how authentic the potato chips are. This evokes people's emotions."
What is the problem here? Rewrite this sentence.
"Deriving a sense of shock (or any emotion), Katy Perry's advertisement provokes viewers to reconsider how authentic the potato chips are."
State two Toulmin's definitions OR give me two examples of two
•Claim: the main point or position (thesis)
•Data: the evidence supporting the claim (reasons)
•Warrant: an underlying assumption or basic principle that connects data and claim; often implied rather than explicit (assumption)
•Qualifiers: The conditions or limits to the claim. In these conditions only, do these claims make sense. (Car example: Nearly all – makes the claim valid, if it is “Some” parents, that could make the claim not as valid).
•Rebuttal: Addressing the opposing view point. (Car example: Unless I have crashed their car before or Unless I have betrayed their trust in someway before, therefore I may betray their trust with the car).
•Backing: The logic behind the warrant. (Car example: I took care of the house for one whole week by myself, moreover, I am a responsible human being).
And a few weeks went by and to my surprise I received letters of encouragement from Hillary Clinton, from Linda Ellerbee, and from Gloria Allred. It was amazing.
What kind of rhetorical appeal is being used here? why?
She is using ethos by showing the credibility of each women.
Point to three words that create an impact on you, and explain why.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.
Wasn't all romantic = negative
I didn't have a dorm room = showing how poor he was at that time
Coke bottle for 5 cents = yet again, showing the poverty he was in
However, he does say that him walking and working hard for his goal was worth it.
Write a topic sentence for this idea:
Steve jobs speech evokes empathy
Steve jobs speech uses concise emotionally provocative words
Steve Jobs uses personal stories/anecdotes
Audience = Stanford Commencement audience
Steve jobs utilizes anecdotes to evokes empathy from the Stanford Commencement audience by using concise emotionally provocative words.
Emma Watson writes in her UN Speech:
"I started questioning gender-based assumptions when at eight I was confused at being called “bossy,” because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parents—but the boys were not."
The person writes: In the UN speech, Watson emphasizes the problems that women face in being called "bossy," because she used to be Hermione Granger, a credible heroine, and people will listen to her.
Erase and rewrite this sentence. You may even want to change the claim entirely that the person is making.
Emma Watson uses words called "bossy," to show how girls are considered aggressive when they take lead-roles, when boys are not, to show the gender inequality in this world.
Do you remember the Rogerian Model? Name all. If you can't, at least tell me what the purpose of the Rogerian model is.
•Introduction
•Opposing position:
•Context for the opposing position:
•Your position:
•Context for your position:
•Benefits:
Reason: To support your claim even better by knowing the opposition's claim.
So as you will tomorrow, I had to leave beautiful Vermont. Attack the life that I knew with socks and a tooth brush into my backpack. And I slept on couch, after couch, after couch, after couch at friends’ apartments in New York. Until I wore out the rent paying roommates’ welcome.
What kind of rhetorical appeal is he using here? why?
He is using visual imagery/anecdote as the technique, and using sympathy (pathos) to convince people that he was having a hard life.
"Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island. And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island."
What is the rhetorical technique being used here? What effect does it have? Use specific words from the sentence, to support your claim.
The writer uses the repetition here of "Last night" and the "Japanese" to show the impact of how it was just yesterday that this event happened, and the Japanese have attacked so many countries within such a short time.
Write a topic sentence for:
*Social media is too addictive
*the essay uses multiple social media examples to show that the youth is trying using too much of social media like youtube, twitter, facebook
*the author questions the addiction of social media through rhetorical questions
Across various platforms of social media, the essay argues that social media is too addictive through their use of rhetorical questions.
Give me a good rebuttal sentence to this argument, using the Rogerian method.
Smoking is still beneficial, because it boosts the happiness of a person.
While understanding that smoking is beneficial to someone's happiness in the short term, I still believe that it is harmful because in the long term, it can impact the person's happiness.
What is the main argument being made here? What words can you bring out that show the main argument here?
"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
The main argument from the piece is that the speaker cannot stand by and disregard one place, when another place is faced with injustice. He states this intermingling of locations and how they influence one another by "interrelatedness" and "inescapable network of mutuality." In particular, he even uses the locations of the internationality of "Atlanta" and "Birmingham."