Rhetorical Situation
The person who wrote or performed the text
Speaker
appeal to emotion or feelings
This part of the essay answers the prompt and establishes the central argument
Thesis
A question that is not intended to be answered
Rhetorical Question
Rhetoric is defined as
persuasive speaking or writing
Who the text is for, who it's directed to or who it's trying to persuade
Audience
Appeal to logic and reasoning
Logos
This part of the essay contains claims, evidence, and reasoning to support and develop the central argument
Body paragraph
Repetition of the beginning of a phrase or sentence
Anaphora
Why does the rhetorical situation matter
It influences the rhetorical choices that will be effective
What the text is about
Subject
Appeal to credibility or shared values
Ethos
In your explanation, you need to connect the rhetorical choices to the ____________
rhetorical situation
Expressive language that is not literally true. Examples include similes, metaphors, symbolism, hyperbole...
Figurative Language
"White supremacy is not a shark; it's the water" is an example of a
metaphor
What the text is trying to say or convince people of
purpose or message
Who created these terms as a theory of persuasion?
Aristotle
How many sentences of explanation should you write for each piece of evidence?
three
A reference to another text
allusion
"Walk my bare feet (walk my bare feet)
Down, down valley deep (down, down valley deep)
Fi-fie-fo-fum (fi-fie-fo-fum) (I love myself)
My heart undone (my heart undone)(I love myself)"
This is an example of what rhetorical choice?
Allusion
The context of the text; when, where, how, in what format, around what history was it made or published?
Occasion
What language are these terms?
Greek
When an essay establishes a clear argument and all of the pieces align in support of that, it has a clear __________________________.
Hint: train of thought
line of reasoning
Alternating between or including words from a different language
code switch / word choice
What rhetorical choices do you see in this passage?
I went to war last night
With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic
I'ma do it 'til I get it right
I went to war last night
I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
Duckin' every other blessin' I can never see the message
I could never take the lead, I could never bob and weave
From a negative and letting them annihilate me
And it's evident I'm moving at a meteor speed
repetition "i went to war last night"
rhythm and rhyme
anaphora "i could never"
figurative language "i'm moving at a meteor speed"