Rincon HS - AP Language & Composition
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| (rhetoric) to tell a story about a subject, possibly to enlighten readers, or to explain something to them. | ||
| (rhetoric) to help readers understand the subject through the evidence of their senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, & taste) | ||
| (rhetoric) impartial, public, and functional. The subject is so clear and exact, that the reader understands or recognizes it without including emotions. | ||
| (rhetoric) emotional, personal, and impressionistic. This form of description relies on bias and personal feelings. | ||
| (rhetoric) to explain the subject with instances. It shows readers the subject's nature or character. | ||
| (rhetoric) to explain or evaluate a subject by helping readers see the similarities and differences between it and another subject. | ||
| (rhetoric) equates two dissimilar things; explaining one in terms of the other. *similarities must be significant and must extend beyond the obvious. | ||
| (rhetoric) to inform readers how to do something or how something works; to inform readers how a sequence of actions leaders to a particular result. | ||
| (rhetoric) explains how to do something; explains how to make something | ||
| (rhetoric) explains how something is done; explains how something takes place | ||
| (rhetoric) to explain a conclusion about a subject by showing readers the subject's parts or elements | ||
| (rhetoric) to help readers see order in a subject by understanding the kinds or groups it can be sorted into | ||
| (rhetoric) to tell readers the reasons for or consequences of a subject; explaining why or what if | ||
| (rhetoric) figuring out what caused what | ||
| (rhetoric) when one event triggers another and in turn triggers another, and so on | ||
| (rhetoric) to show readers the meaning of a subject; its boundaries and its distinctions from other objects | ||
| (rhetoric) when an important idea is likely to be misunderstood by the reader, a full explanation specifies the particular way the term is used (by the writer) | ||
| (rhetoric) explores a topic in its full complexity to explain the meaning; many other modes of rhetoric are used to accomplish this deep exploration of the subject's definition | ||
| (rhetoric) to have readers consider an opinion about a subject or proposal for one | ||
| (rhetoric) aims to win the readers with an assertion or claim by engaging in the powers of reason (logos) | ||
| (rhetoric) aims to influence readers actions, or support for actions, by engaging beliefs and feelings (pathos) | ||
| (rhetoric) an assertion that requires support; what an argument tries to convince the reader to accept | ||
| (rhetoric) data or grounds; facts, statistics, expert opinions, examples, reported experiences | ||
| (rhetoric) explains why the evidence leads to and justifies the claim; a belief, a principle, or inference whose truth the writer manipulates |
