Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation

What are the five parts of the rhetorical situation?

• purpose, ethos, audience, tone, mood

• tone, mood, ethos, logos, pathos

• purpose, audience, topic, writer, context

• context, audience, writer, topic, pathos

Which part of the rhetorical situation is this question targeting? "Are you writing or is the author writing to inform, evaluate, analyze, persuade, etc?"

• purose

• audience

• pathos

• writer

Which part of the rhetorical situation is this question targeting? "The __________ bring their own perspectives, biases, experiences, and expectations which can make the speaker or writer in need of engaging them and making it intentional."

• purpose

• typer

• writer

• audience

Which part of the rhetorical situation is this question targeting? "The _____________ is the content in which you are reading or writing about."

• Context

• Topic

• Purpose

• Logos

Which part of the rhetorical situation is this question targeting? "If a ________ is particularly passionate about a topic, the writing may come across as effective and convincing."

• purpose

• ethos

• writer

• reader

Which part of the rhetorical situation is this question targeting? "The __________ describes the situation surrounding the writing, which includes the time, credibility, and location in which it was written."

• purpose

• ethos

• kairos

• context

Identify the audience from the excerpt in the article below:

"Some colleges have announced that they will no longer require applicants to provide standardized test scores, but instead will look to high school grade-point averages and subjective information like extracurricular activities."

• Students preparing for college

• Students preparing for the workforce

• Students in 9th grade

• Students already in college

Identify the purpose of the excerpt below:

"The challenge for today's college admissions officer is like the one faced by job recruiters: In an era of rampant grade inflation, which grades can you believe? Businesses began learning years ago not to put much stock in diplomas from schools where the average graduate's GPA is 3.5 or higher. Even high grades may not be at all indicative of real learning or readiness for the modern workplace."

• That grades are not valuable

• That grades are so subjective that it is hard to determine a students' academic ability

• that grades are being inflated

• That everyone should shoot for a 3.5 GPA

Identify the writer in the excerpt below:

"The institution I lead, Purdue University, will not be joining that group. A review of all the data tells us that no admissions criteria that ignores either the SAT or ACT exam can predict with equivalent accuracy a student's college performance, or his or her best placement level in critical freshman courses such as mathematics. Accepting a high school "A" at face value and enrolling a student in an advanced math course beyond his or her capabilities does the student a serious disservice" (Mitch Daniels, Washington Post).

• A professor in charge of ACT

• A professor in charge of SAT

• A professor at Purdue University

• An uneducated writer at the Washington Post

Identify the topic in the excerpt below:

"The emotional fragility of many young people today is, by now, a well-documented phenomenon. College students' psychological problems, and genuine mental illness, are very real. Every school I know of approaches the matter with utter seriousness and responsibility. Running a college necessitates ever-growing numbers of counselors and therapists, but keeping up can be difficult. Requests for counseling appointments start almost as soon as a new class arrives. This fall at our school, at least one freshman sought a counseling session before setting foot on campus."

• The mental well-being of college freshmen

• The mental health of Americans

• The mental health of not just freshman, but many young people

• The phenomenon of emotional fragility