Rhetoric Unit Exam

The purpose of this commercial is

• To convince guys to buy flowers

• To empower gals to pull guys by their shirts

• To convince guys to buy axe so that they can be irresistible to the ladies

• To show the possibility of smelling good

This commercial makes which of the following choices

• Upbeat music

• Appealing to sense of happiness by using multiple colors

• Appeal to desire and attraction by showing a woman pulling the man by his shirt

• All of the above

We use the tool SPACECAT to help us do a rhetorical analysis.

SPACECAT stands for...

• speaker, purpose, audience, characters, exigence, conflict, appeals, tone

• speaker, personification, audience, context, evidence, choices, appeals, theme

• speaker, purpose, audience, context, exigence, choices, appeals, tone

• symbolism, purpose, allusion, context, exigence, choices, appeals, theme

The ___________ is what inspires, provokes, stimulates, or prompts a writer to write or make a speech.

• purpose

• appeals

• exigence

• tone

What is it called when you use a tool like SPACECAT to do a deeper investigation of a text or image?

The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. You need this to fully understand the text.

• context

• audience

• polemic

• text

What are the three rhetorical appeals?

• food, money, and love

• logos, pathos, ethos

• persuasion, communication, rhetoric

• logos, pathos, chronos.

________refers to a person's goal for writing, such as to inform, entertain, explain, or persuade. This is what they are hoping to accomplish.

• Rhetoric

• Purpose

• Audience

• Ethos

______________is the person for whom a writer writes, or composer composes. A writer uses a particular style of language, tone, and content according to what he knows about his ____________. In simple words, ______________ refers to the spectators, listeners, and intended readers of a writing, performance, or speech.

• Purpose

• Message

• Logos

• Audience

Before you can analyze a text/image/speech,

you need to _____. This is the first step to doing anything.