Rhetorical Analysis 1st Semester Quiz

The context, speaker, audience, purpose, and message is called...

• The Rhetorical Appeals

• Rhetorical Choices

• The Rhetorical Situation

• Exigence

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The EXIGENCE is

(a)  

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

You receive one point on the rhetorical analysis essay for...

• thesis statement

• sophistication

• commentary and evidence

• including an intro paragraph

Rhetorical "choices" include which of the following:

• The 3 rhetorical appeals

• Rhetorical devices

• Methods of development

• All of the above

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

True or False:

What the author wants his audience to believe/do is called author's purpose

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Your thesis statement should include what?

(a)  

Which of the following is a rhetorical device?

• cause and effect

• anaphora

• Pathos

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Rhetoric is using ________ to construct____________.

• quotes, definitions

• purpose, action

• meaning, beliefs

• words, meaning

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

True or False:

A rhetorical analysis should mostly be a summary of the passage.

• True

• False

Where is the author's purpose, background information, and title of the passage located?

• in the passage

• in the question

• in the prompt

• it is not given, you have to make an inference

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2