Rhetorical Situation
The speaker, audience, context, and exigence that make up the unique circumstances of a piece of persuasion.
What is the rhetorical situation?
A story used to illustrate a point or claim.
What is an anecdote?
The atmosphere felt by the audience based on a speaker's choices.
What is mood?
The fallacy in this example: "Prices went up right after we switched to paper grocery bags. We need to go back to plastic!"
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
The type of claim that states how true something is.
What is a claim of fact?
The problem that prompts a speaker to create and deliver a persuasive work like a speech or article.
What is exigence?
The dictionary definition of words without their emotional or cultural associations.
What is denotation?
A humorous work that makes a point; it relies on the difference between the narrative and authorial voices and the mood and tone.
What is satire?
"You think we should allow tank tops at school? So you just don't want us to have any standards at all. You want anyone to do anything they want!"
What is the straw man fallacy?
Part of a claim that limits the claim, keeps it from being an extreme statement.
What is a qualifier?
What are rhetorical choices?
Word choice.
What is diction?
A character adopted by the speaker, distinct from the speaker's own personality/voice.
What is a persona?
"He's wealthy because he has a lot of money."
What is circular reasoning?
Approach to argument that emphasizes fully understanding the opposing position, finding common ground, and accommodating rather than alienating.
What is Rogerian Argument?
The difference between rhetorical choices and appeals.
What is "appeals are the effects of choices"?
What is colloquialism?
What is tone?
"Taylor got a good grade, so the test must be easy."
What is a hasty generalization?
Type of reasoning that draws from examples and allows for uncertainty.
What is induction?
The early Greek philosopher who codified the relationships between elements of the rhetorical situation using a shape as a model.
Who is Aristotle?
The parallel structure in this example: "Beauty is truth, and truth beauty."
What is chiasmus?
The device in this example from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, "If you had known the virtue of the ring / Or half her worthiness that gave the ring /Or your own honour to contain the ring / You would not then have parted with the ring."
What is epistrophe?
"We can vote for Bob or have chaos."
What is the either/or fallacy? (aka, false dilemma or false dichotomy)
An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable.
What is a concession?