Rhetorical Terms WR 222

Tell me you're a rhetorician

100

This appeal makes the audience feel a certain way

Pathos

200

The statement, "Top climate scientists agree that biking is a way to reduce your carbon footprint" is this kind of rhetorical appeal

Ethos (credibility)

300

An example of this rhetorical move is a Mountain Dew commercial copying scenes from The Shining. 

Reference

400

Logos appeals to this aspect of the audience

Logic/intelligence

500

Invoking this term in your writing makes your audience especially interested to read on! 

exigence

Without telling me you're a rhetorician

100

The timing of an argument relative to its surrounding circumstances

Kairos

200

The opportunity to have discourse

occasion

300

This term defines an object or idea by what it does or the conditions that create it

operational definition

400

These are the tacit values that lay the foundations for arguments

Presuppositions

500

In the textual situation, this is the reader the author imagines for their piece of work; not necessarily who ends up reading it. 

Intended audience

Gonna miss dis course

100

A group with shared values, goals, and a common, specialized language and means of intercommunication

 Discourse community

200

This method allows you to investigate the areas of disagreement within a group or community

Stasis Theory

300

This discourse attempts to get people to take an action or believe an idea

Deliberative

400

This kind of discourse frequently appears in courtrooms or situations when someone is trying to justify actions of the past

Judicial

500

This kind of discourse is about the present–its goal is to highlight and identify the qualities and characteristics of a person or thing that make them great (or, sometimes, not great)

Epideictic

Did someone say analysis?

100

This practice of analysis "takes a magnifying glass" to a piece of discourse to see how it's working

Close Reading

200

This logical strategy begins with a general premise and ends at a specific conclusion

Deductive reasoning

300

This is a means of comparing unalike things for the purpose of explanation or clarification

Analogy

400

In this kind of reasoning, you begin with particular statements and move to a general conclusion 

Inductive Reasoning

500

This is an object that represents something meaningful for the purpose of getting a greater message across

Symbol

Not another college research paper!

100

The three levels of revision are proof-reading, local and ___. 

Global

200

This kind of source is an original document

Primary Source

300

Wikipedia or other sources with unknown authors are commonly known as this tier of secondary source

Tier 4

400

A tier 1 source often goes through this process before being published

Peer review

500

The style of citations most frequently used in the college English/Writing classroom 

MLA