WorksheetsAnalyzing the Rhetorical Situation
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
Identify the context of the excerpt below:
"The trend has spawned a host of explanatory theories. Many have pointed to parental overprotectiveness as the primary cause, and, no doubt, that is a real factor. In the new book "The Coddling of the American Mind," co-authors Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff write that many young people, having too rarely handled problems or adversity on their own, now instinctively look for an adult at the first whiff of difficulty."
Written in modern day by a well-read individual
Written in the 1800s about the literary development of children
Written in 1994 about college struggles
Written in modern day by an unreliable narrator
How do the rhetorical appeals relate to the rhetorical situation?
The appeals are fun to understand when you're being tricked
The appeals are methods writers use to convince the audience throughout the situation
The appeals are essential in understanding persuasive writing
The appeals are ethos, logos, and pathos
