LA3 IB Rhetorical Terms

Making a generalization based on specific evidence at hand.

Greek for “mask.”

A mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker.

An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward

The listener, viewer, or reader of a text. Most texts are likely to have multiple audiences.

Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns.

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

The goal the speaker wants to achieve

The topic of a text. What the text is about.

While this term generally means the written words, in the humanities it has come to mean any cultural product that can be “read”