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Rhetorical. Strategies & Techniques

Authored by Melissa Schantz

English

9th - 12th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Rhetorical analysis is the examination of...

testing procedures for the AP exam

written ​texts to determine how the ​author shaped the content ​in order to achieve an ​identifiable purpose for a given audience

architecture and history of the Rostra in Rome

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is one primary benefit of using the SPACE CAT framework to analyze a text?

It focuses solely on identifying rhetorical devices.

To identify the grammatical structure of a text

To analyze the rhetorical strategies used by an author in order to achieve their purpose

To critique the author's argument by highlighting logical fallacies

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following questions is primarily answered in the SPACE portion of the SPACE CAT method?

What do you understand about the text?

How does the author organize their argument?

How does the author appeal to logic and emotion?

What is the author’s tone towards the subject?

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following questions is primarily answered in the CAT portion of the SPACE CAT method?

What is the context in which the text was written?

Who is the intended audience for the text?

What specific features make the text beautiful, persuasive, and/or powerful?

What motivated the speaker to create the text?

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What SPACE CAT category answers these questions?
Who wrote this and/or is speaking? What do we know about them?

What don’t we know about them?

Does this text have a particular meaning because of WHO wrote/said it?

audience

appeals

speaker

tone

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What SPACE CAT category answers these questions?
What is the speaker hoping to accomplish by putting this out into the world?

tone

context

exigence

purpose

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What SPACE CAT category answers these questions?

Who was the intended audience? The actual audience?

What did the speaker assume about their audience? How did those assumptions impact what they

said and how they said it?

audience

choices

exigence

appeal

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