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| 6616386803 | Subject | General topic, ideas, & content in the text | 0 | |
| 6616386804 | Occasion | Where & when does the text occur? In what context? What is the rhetorical occasion (eulogy, argument, critique etc.)? Larger occasion: broad issue that is the center of ideas and emotions Immediate occasion: the issue that catches the writer's attention and triggers a response | 1 | |
| 6616386805 | Audience | To whom is the text directed? Does the author identify an audience? What assumptions can you make about the primary audience? Individual or group? Additional/secondary audiences? Unintended audiences? | 2 | |
| 6616386806 | Purpose | What is the speaker's reason for writing the text? Intended effect? In what ways does the speaker convey the message/purpose? What is the message? How does the speaker want the audience to feel? | 3 | |
| 6616386807 | Speaker | The voice telling the story; the point of view from which the story is told *What assumptions can you make about the speaker (age, class, gender, emotional state, political views, biases, beliefs, etc.)? | 4 | |
| 6616386808 | Tone | What is the author's attitude towards the subject? How does the diction (choice of words) and syntax (sentence construction) indicate the tone? | 5 | |
| 6616386809 | Organization | How is the text organized? How does the writer arrange the content? (Text structures: description, definition, compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, anecdote, etc.) | 6 | |
| 6616390951 | Kairos | The timeliness of a speaker's response in a rhetorical situation: - Appropriateness of what is said in the moment - The urgency/need for it to be said at that time - The spontaneity of speaking on the spot | 7 | |
| 6616421612 | Ethos | An appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. The audience asks themselves, "What does this person know about this topic?" and "Why should I trust this person?" Can include extrinsic (the character, expertise, education, and experience of the speaker), and intrinsic (how the speaker writes or speaks). | 8 | |
| 6616435924 | Logos | The use of the strategies of logic to persuade an audience. If an statement attempts to persuade the audience by making a reasonable claim and offering proof in support of that claim (rather than by trying to make them feel certain emotions, or by making them perceive the speaker as credible), then that statement is a logical argument. | 9 | |
| 6616456764 | Pathos | An attempt to appeal to "an audience's sense of identity, their self-interest, and their emotions." Consider the different emotions people are capable of feeling: love, pity, sorrow, affection, anger, fear, greed, lust, and hatred. | 10 | |
| 6616486004 | Genre | Narrative (story telling?), Argument, Elegy, Opinion piece, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/satire, political commentary, etc. | 11 |
