Rhetorical Situation Review Game

Rhetorical Situation Review Game

How Well Do You Know the Process

Welcome to the review game!

This game is to help you recall and use the Rhetorical Situation.

There will be a bit of a review and then some review questions with the answers that you can use to quiz yourself.

You can play this game as often as you want!

Poll

First a question.

How well do you think you know the rhetorical situation process?

• I know it like the back of my hand!

• I have a working knowledge but some parts still confuse me

• I've tried to understand it but I really need this review to help

• What day is it?

The Rhetorical Situation

The Rhetorical Situation is a process that allows the reader to know the argument and how it's made in a piece of rhetoric.

There are five steps!

Rhetorical Situation process

• Writer's Purpose

• Audience

• Topic

• Context

• Strategy

Multiple Choice

Which of the following items are part of the writer's purpose?

• Why the writer wrote the piece

• What was happening at the time they wrote the piece

• Author's birthdate

• How they used literary terms

Writer's purpose

The writer's purpose is the biography of the writer and any information about their writing style or the ideas they usually write about. You also want to include any other work.

Multiple Choice

What is not part of the writer's purpose

• The writer's hometown

• The reason why the person wrote the thing

• What subjects they are addressing

• How they used metaphor for their argument.

The writer's purpose is not....

The writer's purpose is NEVER why you think the writer wrote the piece. Sometimes we won't know.

Multiple Choice

When looking at audience, what do we have to consider?

• Intended and unintended

• The time of day

• The time of year

• Who the writer was

Looking for audience

For each piece you read, you want to know where it originally was published. Where ever it is published, you want to know the audience to that publication. THAT is the intended audience.

Multiple Choice

What is topic?

• The one thing the piece is about

• The social issues, thoughts, and ideas that are encompassed in the piece

• The main idea

Lots of topics

Every piece, especially what we read in this class, will touch on several topics. No rhetoric is about one single thing.

Multiple Choice

What's a good idea to do after you list your topics?

• Move on to context

• Do a bit of research on the topics to get a sense of what they are

• Look to see if there is a topic you missed

At least Google!

Topic can be the key to unlocking the deeper meaning to things, which will help to properly identify the argument. So do a bit of a search on the topic. Why is the topic so important to the writer, you think? Does the writer typically write about that topic? What has been doing on in that topic? In the strategy part, you'll see how the writer they made their argument about that topic.

Note: topic can help you do your journals too.

Multiple Choice

What is context?

• Everything

• The way the story was written

• Why the story was written

• Nothing

Context is EVERYTHING

Always

Multiple Choice

What are some things to think about content?

• The time/era the piece in which the time was written

• A response to an event or social issue

• A response to an experience the author is having/had

• All of the above

• None of the above

Context can be tricky

Contet can be tricky, which is why you need to do a deep dive. Remember, this is a long and indepth process.

Multiple Choice

Context can sometimes overlap with what other step?

• audience

• topic

• writer's purpose

Multiple Choice

Which step is the longest step?

• writer's purpose

• audience

• strategy

• context

The longest step

Strategy is the longest step because you are analyzing how an argument is made. That means you'll spend a lot of time during this step and you may have to read the piece several times.

Multiple Choice

When you are looking at strategy, you are searching for...

• how the argument was made

• the main idea

• what the writer is trying to say

Multiple Choice

Because strategy is how the argument is made, you'll need to use what?

• One of the elements (argument, fiction, poetry, etc)

• More coffee to read it again

• Review the context

• Review the topic

Multiple Choice

When do you use the elements of argument?

• For short stories

• For poetry

• For essays

Multiple Choice

When do you use the elements of poetry?

• When analyzing a poem

• When analyzing a short story

• When analyzing an essay

Multiple Choice

True of False:

You can use the elements of argument for poetry

• True

• False

You NEVER want to do this

Never use one element for another genre. That means doesn't use the elements of argument for a story story, or the elements of poetry for an essay. ALWAYS know what you are reading.

Multiple Choice

Can you use the appeal ethos to analyze a poem?

• No. Never.

• Yes. Always.

• Maybe

If you got that wrong....

What did I just say?

Multiple Choice

What step of the rhetorical situation requires research?

• Writer's Purpose

• Audience

• Context

• Topic

• All of them

Research, research

For each step, you should be looking something up and doing the best you can to do a deep dive. This is another reason why it takes so long to do this.

Google is okay (watch out for false information) but the databases are best.

Poll

That's it! How did you do?

• I totally get it now!

• This cleared up lots of questions

• I'm close to getting it. I'll play again.

• I don't get it. Expect an email from me.

Now what?

You are welcome to do this review as many times you need to understand this process.

If you still need more clarification, don't hesitate to schedule office hours and I'll be happy to help you through it.

Thanks for playing!