SP
The entity making a claim is...
What is the speaker?
The individual(s) the speaker is trying to reach
What is the audience?
The events or spark that prompt a speaker to make a claim
What is exigence?
What are the appeals?
This word is not a rhetorically accurate verb, and you should NEVER use it when writing
What is "shows"?
What the audience is supposed to know or do by the end of the text.
What is the purpose?
Who is literally listening
What is the concrete audience?
Anything a speaker or writer does in order to get his or her point across
What are choices?
Tone
What is the attitude of the speaker throughout the text?
envoke
What is not a word and a misspelling of either evoke or invoke?
Who is literally speaking
The collective qualities of the listener(s)
What is the abstract audience?
Shifts, methods of development, DIDLS, Classical Argument
What are the choices for which we annotate?
poignant, indignant, somber, passionate, etc.
What are examples of tone?
George W. Bush uses words to make the audience feel emotions.
What is a terrible sentence for an RA?
The character qualities and values of the speaker
What is the abstract speaker?
What is happening socio-culturally during the time period a claim is made
What is the context?
imagery, patriotic diction, comparisons, cause and effect method of development, parallel structure, repetition...
What are examples of choices?
The rain tapped a hollow, relentless rhythm against the windowpane, blurring the skeletal outlines of the winter trees outside. Inside, the grandfather clock ticked with a heavy, deafening slow-motion thud, marking the seconds of an empty house. She sat at the edge of an unmade bed, staring at the dust motes dancing in the pale, gray light, completely motionless.
What is a somber tone?
Malcolm X is fighting for Native American rights.
What is not Malcolm X's ethnicity and not the purpose of the text?
To encourage Black people to vote for their own interests in their own communities or be prepared to use violence in order to gain rights.
What is the purpose of Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet"?
9 days after the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11 when the American people are grieving, afraid, and angry
What is the context of George W. Bush's 9/11 speech?
You have a test next week where you have to annotate, answer questions, and write an essay all by yourself
What is the exigence of this game?
Drop everything and listen to me. The fire wall has breached and the secondary servers are already failing.
What is an urgent tone?
connotation, diction, and emotion
What are words that can NEVER be used without a descriptor?