Intro to the Rhetorical Situation & Writing the RA

One who crafts a message strategically in hopes of maximizing her chances of influencing an audience.

• rhetor

• kairos

• persona

• orator

• writer

It is the character you inject into the "character" you want your audience to relate to.

• exigence

• purpose

• semantic

• classical appeal

• ethos

Example: "Hey, Jerkface!" (Pick two)

• epithet

• encomium

• semantic

• trope

• rhetorical situation

Category of rhetoric that is mainly concerned with what happened in the past.

• judicial

• demonstrative

• deliberative

• syntactic

• semantic

Category of rhetoric that is mainly concerned with what happened in the present.

• judicial

• demonstrative

• deliberative

• syntactic

• semantic

Category of rhetoric that is mainly concerned with what happened in the future.

• judicial

• demonstrative

• deliberative

• syntactic

• semantic

Greek for "mask"

• persona

• kairos

• ethos

• mythos

• exigence

Greek for "mask"

• persona

• kairos

• ethos

• mythos

• exigence

Greek for "timing"

• persona

• kairos

• ethos

• mythos

• exigence

Latin for "urgency," it is the event that is a work's reason for being.

• persona

• kairos

• ethos

• mythos

• exigence