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| 6806825583 | What is Rhetoric? | "the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, esp. the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques" | 0 | |
| 6806837073 | Available means- How did writers use the available means to their advantage? | 1 | ||
| 6806881497 | Aristotle | creator of Rhetoric He wrote The Art of Rhetoric | 2 | |
| 6806893064 | Different types of Non- Fiction Rhetoric: | essays, cartoons, photographs, advertisements, statues, paintings, letters, eulogies, speeches | 3 | |
| 6806926252 | How can a writer use context to their advantage?-Time? Location or cultural significance? | A writer uses context to help his message be received. For example, if Lou Gehrig hadn't said his farewell speech at one of his baseball games then the crowd could have possible not understood the importance behind his message. They could have possible not recognized him or his importance, but because he stood in front of his fans they understood his message. | 4 | |
| 6806926253 | SOAPS- What does the acronym stand for? When do you use it? | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker we use it to understand literary works | 5 | |
| 6806949094 | Ethos, Pathos, and Logos What do the terms mean? How do you identify them? | Ethos (Character) is the credibility, pathos (Experience) is the emotion, and Logos (Word) is the reason. | 6 | |
| 6807014060 | How would you identify the appeals in the rhetorical essay? ETHOS | Ethos can be identified by the use of a person who can support the person's claim. | 7 | |
| 6807016720 | How would you identify the appeals in the rhetorical essay? PATHOS | Pathos can be identified by the use of anecdotes, babies, animals, and anything that brings about emotion to the reader. | 8 | |
| 6807019773 | How would you identify the appeals in the rhetorical essay? LOGOS | Logos can be identified through the use of facts and statistics. | 9 | |
| 6807024451 | How might you use them in the argumentative essay? | You can use them to add help persuade your reader. | 10 | |
| 6807035663 | Logical Fallacy - What is it? How might you use it? When should you avoid it? | It is an error in reasoning. You can use it to intelligently refute arguments and build effective arguments. Avoid it when making a claim. | 11 | |
| 6807048258 | Bandwagon | Urging the audience to accept a position because a majority of people hold that opinion. | 12 | |
| 6807055526 | Either/ or/ false Dichotomy | Assuming there are only two options when there are many. | 13 | |
| 6807060977 | Appeal to tradition | The idea being that because something is old or we've been doing it forever it must be accurate or based on evidence. | 14 | |
| 6807067961 | Hasty Generalization | Drawing a conclusion when there is not sufficient evidence. | 15 | |
| 6807074156 | Non- Sequitor | Conclusion is drawn where there is no logical connection at all. | 16 | |
| 6807086817 | Straw Man | When a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. | 17 | |
| 6807095274 | Ad Hominem | Attack your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument. STICKING IT TO THE MAN | 18 | |
| 6807132185 | 9 Rhetorical Modes | Description Narration/ Anecdote Cause and Effect Comparison and Contrast Definiton Division and Classification Exemplification Process Analysis Argumentation | 19 | |
| 6807143515 | Description | giving a verbal picture using space order | 20 | |
| 6807148102 | Narration/ anecdote | telling about an event using time order | 21 | |
| 6807152580 | Cause/ effect | explaining reasons and effects | 22 | |
| 6807154824 | Comparison and Contrast | showing similarities/ differences between two people, concepts, things | 23 | |
| 6807159630 | Definition | explaining a term/ concept using examples | 24 | |
| 6807163797 | Division/ Classification | like comparison/ contrast, but considering more then two items which can be grouped into categories | 25 | |
| 6807169164 | Exemplification | illustrating; giving examples | 26 | |
| 6807172897 | Process Analysis | explaining how to...( often chronological, like narration; often used in science classes, e.g. for lab reports) | 27 | |
| 6807179013 | Argumentation | used most often in academic writing; "support","refute", or "qualify" | 28 | |
| 6807192768 | How do short, clipped phrases affect the pace of a piece? | they tend o create a feeling of quickness, decisiveness, and speed to a piece. | 29 | |
| 6807202605 | How do long, convoluted sentences, especially with subordinate clauses at the beginning tend to slow the pace of a piece? | Often they are connected to a contemplative section, a heavy or serious subject and the writer wants to emphasize it. They slow down the pace because of the subordinate clauses which case them to take a longer and force the reader to breath between the clause and the sentence. | 30 | |
| 6807287297 | What are they referring to when they mention the grammatical sentence structure? | Whether the it is a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence. | 31 | |
| 6807354603 | What are they referring to when they discuss sentence function? | Whether the sentence is a declarative, imperative, interrogative or exclamatory sentence. | 32 | |
| 6807369584 | What's the difference between a periodic and loose sentence? When would you use a periodic sentence? | A loos sentence makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending while a periodic sentence only makes sense when the end of the sentence is reached. You would use a periodic sentence to lead the reader on and force them to continue reader or build suspense. | 33 | |
| 6807420439 | What's the difference between telegraphic, short, medium, and long sentences? | Telegraphic has less than 5 words, short has about 5 words, medium has about 18 words, and long is about 30 or more words. | 34 | |
| 6807440064 | Allusion | reference to a mythological literary, historical, or biblical person, place, or thing | 35 | |
| 6807456029 | Analogy | comparison of two things to show they are alike | 36 | |
| 6807458510 | Apostrophe | form of personification where the absent or dead are spoken to as if present, and the inanimate as if animate. | 37 | |
| 6807464320 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 38 | |
| 6807466718 | Irony | saying one thin while meaning the opposite; used to criticized | 39 | |
| 6807533768 | Metaphor | comparison without the use of "like" or "as". | 40 | |
| 6807535992 | Oxymoron | paradox which combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 41 | |
| 6807542684 | Paradox | statement that contradicts itself | 42 | |
| 6807546115 | Personification | kind of metaphor which gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 43 | |
| 6807549476 | Pun | play on words which are identical similar in sound but which have sharply diverse meanings | 44 | |
| 6807585896 | Rhetorical question | a question that expects no answer and is used to draw attention to a point and is generally stronger than a direct statement | 45 | |
| 6807592718 | Sarcasm | type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something which he is actually insulting the thing. Its purpose is to injure or hurt | 46 | |
| 6807599019 | Simile | comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words "like" or "as". | 47 | |
| 6807603987 | Synecdoche | A part of something is used to signify the whole "All eyes were on him" | 48 | |
| 6807606527 | Metonymy | the name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it is closely associated "I love Shakespeare" | 49 | |
| 6807616478 | Understatement | opposite of hyperbole | 50 | |
| 6807618827 | Zeugma | the use of the verb that has two different meanings with objects that complement both meanings | 51 | |
| 6807631081 | Anaphora | the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 52 | |
| 6807633376 | Antithesis | involves a direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings generally for the purpose of contrast | 53 | |
| 6807638487 | Anastrophe | Changing the syntactical correct order or subject, verb, and object for effect of emphasis | 54 | |
| 6807642281 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words | 55 | |
| 6807646065 | Asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions | 56 | |
| 6807650616 | catalogue | a list | 57 | |
| 6807650617 | chiasmus | strategy in which the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first | 58 | |
| 6807654757 | Consonance | repetition of a consonant sound | 59 | |
| 6807659759 | Juxtaposition | normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another | 60 | |
| 6807665419 | Onomatopoeia | words which resemble the sounds they describe | 61 | |
| 6807669047 | parallel structure | structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence | 62 | |
| 6807671956 | Polysyndetion | the use of many conjunctions | 63 | |
| 6807675212 | Repetition | a device in which words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once | 64 | |
| 6807700558 | Rhetorical fragment | a sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect | 65 | |
| 6807711935 | Monosyllabic | one syllable in length | 66 | |
| 6807714715 | polysyllalic | more than one syllable; usually more difficult content | 67 | |
| 6807732870 | Colloquial | slang | 68 | |
| 6807732871 | formal | literary | 69 | |
| 6807735940 | Denotative | containing an exact meaning | 70 | |
| 6807737488 | connotative | containing a suggested meaning | 71 | |
| 6807739381 | Concrete | specific | 72 | |
| 6807739382 | abstract | general | 73 | |
| 6807741505 | Euphonious | pleasant sounding like butterfly | 74 | |
| 6807742829 | cacophonous | harsh sounding like pus | 75 | |
| 6807752154 | Ellipses | a trailing off; going off into a dreamlike state | 76 | |
| 6807752155 | Dash | interruption interjection | 77 | |
| 6807752156 | Semicolon | parallel ideas; piling up of detail | 78 | |
| 6807754862 | Colon | a list; definition or explanation; a result | 79 | |
| 6807769367 | Italics | emphasis | 80 | |
| 6807772245 | Capitalization | emphasis | 81 | |
| 6807772246 | Exclamation Point | emphasis; emotion | 82 | |
| 6807780106 | example of Tone words | are found in Syntax PDF (u crazy if u thought i was gonna write them all) | 83 | |
| 6807790058 | Vocabulary Set A &B words | see Diaz's quizlet | 84 |
