Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of...

• using language as a means to persuade

• preventing intellectual property theft

• writing 5 paragraph essays

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Rhetorical analysis is the examination of...

• testing procedures for the AP exam

• written ​texts to determine how the ​author shaped the content ​in order to achieve an ​identifiable purpose for a given audience

• architecture and history of the Rostra in Rome

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Exigence is...

• a reader of group of readers capable of acting on this exigence

• what the author intends for the reader(s) to do while and after they read the text

• a gap, a need, a lack, something that needs doing. The cause for an author to write.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Audience is...

• a reader or group of readers capable of acting on this exigence

• what the author intends for the reader(s) to do while and after they read the text

• a gap, a need, a lack, something that needs doing. The cause for an author to write.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Purpose is...

• a gap, a need, a lack, something that needs doing. The cause for an author to write.

• a reader or group of readers capable of acting on this exigence

• what the author intends for the reader(s) to do while and after they read the text.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Logos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions and interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Pathos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions or interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Ethos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions or interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A device used to produce figurative language

• cell phone

• essay template

• figure of speech

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Apostrophe is...

• breaking off discourse to address some absent, person, or thing, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent character.

• a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

• the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D