Introduction to Rhetoric Vocabulary

Aristotle said rhetoric is the ability to see the available means of persuasion.

• A. True

• B. False

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The listener, viewer, or reader of a text.

• audience
• context
• persona
• occasion

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The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text is known as ________.

For Lou Gehrig’s speech it is the recent announcement of his illness and his subsequent retirement, but it is also the poignant contrast between his potent career and his debilitating disease.

• connotation

• context

• rhetorical appeals

• rhetorical triangle

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The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written.

In the case of Gehrig’s speech, it is Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. More specifically, his moment comes at home plate between games of a doubleheader.

• context

• occasion

• purpose

• subject

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Greek for “mask.” The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience.

Lou Gehrig is a famous baseball hero, but in his speech he presents himself as a common man who is modest and thankful for the opportunities he’s had.

• ethos

• pathos

• persona

• speaker

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The goal the speaker wants to achieve

• context

• text

• occasion

• purpose

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This is the topic of the text.

• speaker

• subject

• audience

• rhetorical appeals

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The problem, incident, or situation causing the speaker to create the text. The “spark”.

• Occasion

• Exigence

• Audience

• Constraints

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A reversal of position is called an _________.

• inversion

• didactic

• opinion

• ethos

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The attitude of the speaker/author toward their subject.

• Tone

• Persona

• Exigence

• Rhetorical Situation

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