Introduction to Rhetoric Page 1 Quiz
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16 Terms
Rhetoric
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques
Texts
Anything that can be analyzed
Purpose
The reason a text was written
Context
The background of the texts
Occasion/ Exigence
A trigger
Subject
The topic
Speaker
The person delivering, writing, or communicating the text
Persona
Character or face assumed by speaker
Audience
The intended listeners
Ethical/ Rhetorical Appeals (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
Relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these
Ethos
When a text communicates credibility of speaker
Pathos
Appeals to emotion. An appeal to bias.
Logos
Appeal to logic and reason
Connotation
Implication of a word
Denotation
Literal meaning of a word
Satire
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices
