SPACE CAT + Terms Quiz

S

Speaker

P

Purpose

A (1st)

Audience

C (1st)

Context (when/where)

E

Exigence

C (2nd)

Choices (structure, word choice, ect)

A (2nd)

Appeals

T

Tone

Aristotle’s Definition of Rhetoric

The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion (strategies to nudge someone into thinking a certain way)

Rhetoric Triangle

Speaker, Audience, Subject

Speaker

The person/group who is trying to persuade

Audience

The person/group who the speaker is trying to persuade

Subject

The topic (not the argument or purpose)

Rhetoric Appeals

Logos, Pathos, Ethos

Logos

Appeal to logic

Ethos

Appeal to ethics

Pathos

Appeal to emotions

Argument

Position or reasoning a speaker is trying to persuade the audience to adopt

Counterargument

Acknowledging some reasonableness to opposing views but then denying that point’s validity

Concession

Acknowledging some truth to the opposing view

Refutation

Disproving the overall line of thinking of the opposing view

Satire

appeal to humor (pathos) that fun of a viewpoint with the aim of persuading the audience to see how ridiculous that way of thinking is

Exigence

What problems or events led to the need for this piece of literature