Introduction to Rhetoric Page 1 Quiz

AP Language and Compostion

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