Rhetorical Strategies

A reference to a well known person, place, event in history, literature, or culture

• allusion

• analogy

• anaphora

• anadiplosis

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is Ethos?

• The appeal to logic or reason

• Appeal to emotion using descriptive, vivid language or even a visual image

• An appeal to the credibility and authority of the speaker

• An appeal to words near the end of a clause and the beginning of a new clause

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is Logos?

• An appeal to the credibility and authority of the speaker

• The appeal to logic or reason

• Appeal to emotion using descriptive, vivid language or even a visual image

• The speaker or writer’s topic or content

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is Pathos?

• The appeal to logic or reason

• The speaker’s intention

• Appeal to emotion using descriptive, vivid language or even a visual image

• An appeal to the credibility and authority of the speaker

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is Rhetoric?

• refers to the strategies we use to make an argument persuasive (the “how” of an argument)

• The circumstances give rise to the argument

• Appeal to logic or reason.

• Appeal to the credibility or the authority of the speaker.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The TYPE of writing that you are asked to write.

• Mode

• Type

• Audience

• Diction

The group of listeners, readers, people who are in attendance of the text. The group of people who care about the text.

• Population

• Adults

• Audience

• Peeps

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

The speaker/writer/author's main goal of their writing. What they want to accomplish.

• Purpose

• Main idea

• Mode

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

The context of the text. What is going on AROUND the text. Why the text is happening.

• Tone

• Audience

• Setting

• Situation

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Diction

• The choice of words and style a writer chooses to use in their writing.

• To dictate something in writing.

• The group of people watching a speech.

• The literal meaning of a word.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3