Rhetorical Situations
Using appeals based on scientific facts, figures, statistics, and data to support an argument.
What is Logos?
The three important elements to analyze in an argument.
What is logos, ethos, and pathos (subject, speaker, and audience)?
A written discussion incorporating support from several sources of differing views.
What is Synthesis?
Appeals made on moral values and authority.
What is Ethos?
First part of creating a rhetorical analysis.
Finding the purpose of the text.
How perspective influences the text being analyzed.
What is Bias?
Arguments that use appeals to the audience's emotions and a sense of sympathy.
What is Pathos?
Characteristics that impact how/why the author created the text.
What is author credibility/background?
Organizing the body paragraphs by main idea, evidence, thesis links, more evidence, more links, and a conclusion.
What is MELECON?
The problem or issue that pushed the writer to write.
What is Exigence?
Elements such as tropes, cliches, and appeals that the author uses to develop the portrayal of their argument.
What are rhetorical devices?
Strategy for organizing one's essay by the importance of the evidence used.
What is the Climactic Order?
The seven important elements of an argument.
What is claim, evidence, grounds, warrant, rebuttal, qualification, and conclusion?
Strategies for analyzing rhetoric through the authors use of diction, imagery, detail, etc.
DIDLS, DUCATS, SMELL, DIDTS
The most important element for creating and organizing a synthesis essay.
What is ordering and interpreting sources?