Travelling through SPACECAT
This acronym helps you remember to break down the rhetorical situation of a text.
What is SPACECAT?
Level 1, Level 2, and Level three are the different levels of this method of questioning.
What is Costa's Levels of Questioning?
These also go by the name of "rhetorical choices."
What is Figurative Language?
This is how a speaker persuades the audience.
What is Rhetorical Appeals?
This letter in SPACECAT is how the writer feels about a subject on which they are writing. In other words, it is their attitude toward the text.
What is Tone?
This letter in the acronym stands for "the person who wrote or spoke the text."
What is S: Speaker?
This acronym helps you remember the three levels of questioning.
What is F.I.G.?
This form of figurative language is when a speaker uses a short, relatable story to connect to their audience.
What is anecdote?
This form of rhetorical appeal includes data and statistics, but also includes answers to questions.
What is Logos?
This is what it is called when a tone changes within a text.
What is tonal shift?
This is the definition of the "Purpose" of a written or spoken text.
What is the goal or desired effect of the writer?
This level of questioning asks for common knowledge or obvious information.
What is Level 1 Costa's Question?
This form of figurative language takes into consideration an author's word choice.
What is diction?
This type of rhetorical appeal is useful when telling a story to connect to the audience.
What is Pathos?
This is how long you have on each of the written essays.
What is 40 minutes?
The second half of the acronym has three letters that stand for these three rhetorical points.
What is Choices, Appeals, and Tone?
This level of questioning requires that you infer and interpret a text. In other words, you must read between the lines to find an answer.
What is Level 2?
These two forms of figurative language are opposites, both a form of exaggeration (or lack thereof) for effect.
What is hyperbole and understatement?
This type of rhetorical appeal is more than just credibility from a speaker, but includes ethics, experience, and connection to what they are speaking about.
What is Ethos?
This is what you should do in your rhetorical analysis essay. (Hint: don't summarize, but...)
What is Analyze how a rhetorical choice is used?
This is "the catalyst or event that sparked the text."
What is exigence?
This level of questioning includes answers that are outside the text and present larger issues for discussion.
This form of figurative language is often overlooked, and is the implied meaning of a word within a text.
What is Connotation?
This essay will ask you to analyze rhetorical choices within a speaker's text.
What is Rhetorical Analysis (or Essay #2)?
This is what you need to do within a rhetorical analysis essay.
What is explain how a rhetorical choice, appeal, or tone is used effectively within that speech?