Rhetoric

Rhetoric is

• only for politicians or people in power.

• used to get what you want.

• the art of effective speaking and writing.

Audience is

• not an important part of the rhetorical situation.

• a key part of the rhetorical situation.

• the people who will hear or read the speech or text.

The rhetorical situation is made up of:

• audience

• political agenda

• setting

• purpose

• author

The repetition of a grammatical structure is known as

• repetition

• rhetorical question

• allusion

• parallelism

An unexplained reference to a well known work or person is

• repetition

• parallelism

• allusion

• rhetorical question

A question asked to make a point rather than get an answer

• repetition

• paralellism

• allusion

• rhetorical question

The three rhetorical appeals are _________, ___________, and _________.

The appeal to ethos relies mostly on...

• credibility

• emotion

• logic

The appeal to logos relies mostly on...

• credibility

• emotion

• logic

The appeal to pathos relies mostly on...

• credibility

• emotion

• logic