Rhetorical Analysis Trivia

What is rhetoric?

• The study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion

• The ability to think rationally.

• The analysis of a given situation.

• The process of sending and receiving messages through verbal or non-verbal means

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What does rhetorical analysis help us understand?

• How the language of a text works--including persuasive texts.

• Solely the author's purpose

• How images in a text are used.

• How tone and thesis work together.

What are 4 things that need to be considered when conducting rhetorical analysis?

• Context, Audience, Images, and Vocabulary

• Setting, Speaker, call to action, and Images

• Context, Speaker, Purpose, and Audience.

• Speaker, Purpose, Context, and Vocabulary

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Where can we use rhetorical analysis?

• In any form of media (film, TV, Books, articles, social media etc.)

• In articles and informational texts only

• In political media/texts

• In commercials only

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is ethos?

• The appeal to authority

• The appeal to emotions

• The logical appeal

• None of the above

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is pathos?

• The appeal to logic

• The appeal to emotions

• The appeal to authority

• None of the above

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is logos?

• The appeal to authority

• The appeal to emotions

• The appeals to logic or reason

• None of the above

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is tone?

• None of the above

• The writer's or speaker's educational background

• The writer's or speaker's attitude towards a subject, character, or audience

• The writer's or speaker's investment in the message

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the purpose of SPACE CAT?

• To serve as guide/method for analyzing a text and do rhetorical analysis

• To imagine actual cats in Space.

• It is just used to analyze fictional texts.

• To serve a way to analyze a situation and do rhetorical analysis.

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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

Select the correct 2 Answer boxes to complete the following sentence: SPACE CAT stands for​ ​ ​ (a)   ​ ​ (b)  

• Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Claim, Evidence
• Choices, Appeals, and Theme
• Setting, Purpose, Audience, Context, Examples
• Choices, Argument, Tension
• Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence,
• Choices, Appeals, and Tone

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10