Vocabulary: Rhetorical Situation

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rhetoric

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the art that humans use to process all the messages we send and receive

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exigence

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what inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers to create a text

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purpose

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what the writer hopes to accomplish within a text

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context

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circumstances of a situation; time, place, and occasion of a text

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genre

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writer’s chosen mode of communicating information and purpose

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embed

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fix or set securely or deeply

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synthesis

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the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole

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formative

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giving or able to give form; characterized by important growth or formation

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integrity

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firm attachment to moral values; total honesty and sincerity

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syntax

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sentence structure