Rhetorical Terms Review

The moves and tools that a speaker uses in order to make their message more meaningful, effective, and persuasive.

• Rhetorical Techniques

• Textual Evidence

• Rhetorical Triangle

• Rhetorical Précis

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

CCSS.SL.11-12.4

What the speaker/author wants to achieve with the text. What they want the audience/reader to think, believe, or do after having read their text. This is the main reason for creating the text.

• Central/Main Idea

• Purpose

• Claim

• Counterclaim

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

The character or emotions of a speaker that are expressed in an attempt to persuade an audience.

The appeal to morality and ethics that a speaker makes in order to persuade an audience.

• Speaker

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

The persuasive appeal to the audience’s logic and rationality, often using data, numbers, statistics, and reasoning to convince the audience intellectually.

• Speaker

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.1B

The appeal to the emotions of an audience by creating an emotional response and connection to the argument made by the speaker.

• Speaker

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

The use of words in a way that deviates from conventional or literal meaning. This type of language helps make an argument more meaningful, colorful, evocative, and stylistic.

• Rhetorical Techniques

• Rhetorical Triangle

• Rhetorical Précis

• Figurative Language

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Any message or argument that is communicated by a speaker/author. This could include any visual, verbal, or auditory message (i.e. essays, articles, books, speeches, advertisements, commercials, movies, TV shows, podcasts, art, etc.)

• Claim

• Central/Main Idea

• Text

• Textual Evidence

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

A main point that the author is making. What the text is mostly about. The thesis of the text: One sentence that states what the article is about.

• Central/Main Idea

• Claim

• Purpose

• Counterclaim

There are 2 of these: (1) Ethos-Pathos-Logos; (2) The Rhetorical Situation and elements of an argument: Speaker, Audience, Message, Purpose, Context

• Rhetorical Techniques

• Rhetorical Triangle

• Rhetorical Précis

• Figurative Language

The recipients of an argument, either as readers, viewers, or listeners.

Often, this term applies moreso to the intended recipients of an argument, or, the specific group(s) of people that a speaker wishes to target their message.

• Text

• Claim

• Diction

• Audience

Tags

CCSS.SL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.1B

CCSS.W.11-12.2B