Introduction to Rhetoric, Audience, and Thesis Development

Practice flashcards in a fill-in-the-blank style covering key concepts of rhetoric, audience types, prewriting techniques, topic narrowing, and thesis statement construction based on the lecture.

Rhetoric goes all the way back to the philosopher __________, who defined it as communication.

Aristotle

Genre simply means __________ when considering how to present information to an audience.

type

An example of a hook strategy to start an introduction is an anecdote, which is a __________.

story

TikTok videos are short because human attention spans are down to __________ seconds before people move on.

five or six

The __________ audience type refers to an undecided audience that is in between on an issue.

wavering

A supportive audience is described as __________, while a hostile audience disagrees.

agreeable

When writing for a hostile audience, you must use a lot of __________ such as statistics and factual examples.

evidence

__________ means what is surrounding the text, such as history, politics, culture, and social movements.

Context

In an essay introduction, the thesis statement should be positioned __________.

last

The prewriting method also known as mapping or webbing that uses circles for main ideas is called __________.

clustering

Free writing involves constant writing for __________ minutes before going back to see what can be used.

three to five

In a formal outline, main ideas are identified using __________ numerals.

Roman

A thesis statement delivers the main idea, purpose, and writer's __________.

perspective

A thesis statement should never be a fact, a question, or an __________.

announcement

An __________ thesis statement is directly stated, whereas an implied thesis statement is not directly stated.

explicit