AP Language: Rhetoric

Check what are parts of the "Rhetorical Situation"

• exigence

• audience

• purpose

• resolution

• speaker

What prompts the author to write; what is the issue that compels the starting point?

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

The word for what the speaker/writer hope the audience will DO with the material presented is called what?

• purpose

• audience

• exigence

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

The writer’s/speaker’s aim to shape people’s thoughts and actions

• persuasion

• faculty

• audience

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Check which components make up exigence in the Rhetorical Situation.

• writer

• subject

• audience

• syntax

In Aristotle's quote, “Available means”

• EVERYTHING a writer/speaker might do with language

• rhetoric capitalizes on specific situations

• the writer’s/speaker’s aim to shape people’s thoughts and actions

• rhetoric capitalizes on specific situations

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

In Aristotle's definition, “Faculty” =

• the writer’s/speaker’s aim to shape people’s thoughts and actions

• does not necessarily mean using

• rhetoric capitalizes on specific situations

• an improvable art

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Rhetoric is:

• The faculty of finding all the available means of persuasion in a particular case.

• Something sticking in the craw of the writer or speaker that needs speaking or writing about.

• The study of words.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Audience includes (check applicable responses)

• primary audience

• secondary audience

• exigence

• diction

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Reading critically begins with

• the situation

• the resolution

• the speaker

• the audience

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10