SPACE
These are the five terms included in the acronym SPACE.
What are speaker, purpose, audience, context, and exigence?
The C in CAT stands for this.
What are choices?
The A in CAT stands for this.
What are appeals?
The T in CAT stands for this.
What is tone?
This civilization is thought to have been the first to domesticate cats.
What is ancient Egypt?
The context often leads into this part of a rhetorical situation.
What is exigence?
There are two types of choices an author can make.
What are methods of delivery and rhetorical devices?
There are three types of appeals: ethos, ___, and logos.
What is pathos?
This is the name of an instance wherein a speaker's attitude changes in a text.
What is a tone shift?
This is the only planet that is not named after a Roman deity.
What is Earth?
This person's ethos must be analyzed.
Most of JD Vance's "Chapter 4" of Hillbilly Elegy utilizes this method of delivery.
What is narration?
Experience can contribute to the development of this appeal.
What is ethos?
In a eulogy for Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan's tone would be described with this adjective.
What is resentful, irreverent, condescending, etc.?
This planet has the largest ocean in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Lydia Yuknavitch intended to make her audience of misfits believe this after listening to her TED Talk.
What is the importance of telling your story authentically?
In his commencement speech, Barack Obama uses this method of delivery to show the relationship between American tragedies and inspiring youthful leaders.
What is cause and effect?
In "Chapter 4" of Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance cites a statistic from Brookings Institution in 2011: "compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005-09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high school or college graduates, homeowners, and not receiving public assistance." This is an example of a type of rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
This genre of literature is characterized by a mocking tone.
What is satire?
A typical cat will have this many toes.
What are eighteen toes?
They are the intended audience of JD Vance's "Chapter 4" of Hillbilly Elegy.
Who are outsiders of the Middletown (or any small town in the Rust Belt) community?
Throughout her TED Talk, Lydia Yuknavitch provides a series of instances proving her status as a misfit using this method of delivery.
What is exemplification?
In an excerpt, JD Vance says, "Mom was never much of a math person, but she took me to the public library before I could read, got me a library card, showed me how to use it, and always made sure I had access to kids' books at home" (120). This appeal to pathos attempted to create this emotion.
Hint: It'd be a good idea to read the whole paragraph before answering!
What is pride?
In her TED Talk, Yuknavitch's self-deprecating tone shifts to optimism when she speaks about this.
What is the present-day?
This is the most common type of star found in the Milky Way Galaxy.
What is a red dwarf star?