Exam Review: Rhetoric, Analysis, and Communication

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the exam review notes covering rhetorical analysis, listening skills, dialogue, and rhetorical strategies.

Analysis

A cognitive process relevent to decision making everday.

Rhetorical Analysis

Asks open ended questions that require explanation and evidence rather than a simple factual response, focusing on how a text is written/formed rather than its message and considering the success rate of the message.

Rhetorical Stratigies

Appeals or tools used by writers to persuade.

Five Characteristic Features of Analysis

Unaswerable question, description of subject, evidence and examination, insight gained, and clear, precise language.

Rhetoric

The art or practice of persuasion.

Rhetorical Situation

Practice that considers a piece of rhetoric by examining writer's consideration, audience, topic, purpose, context, and culture; also defined as the series of choices and circumstances surrounding a piece of communication.

Reading Rhetorically

Practice that helps you make deliberate choices when analyzing text.

Six Elements of Rhetorical Situation

Writer, Audience, Topic, Purpose, Context, and Culture.

Habits

Practices to help you succeed.

Academic Writing

Requires that we present our ideas as responses to others.

Patterns

Method to organize academic writing to be clear and concise.

Conventions

Specific way something should be written in terms of its purpose.

Questioning

Reassessing your personal views.

Power

The ability to control or influence.

Privelage

Advantages for some.

Linguistic Discrimination

Unfair treatment based on speech.

Linguistic Standardization

Process by which conventional forms of language are established and maintained.

Critical Language Awareness

Explores how languages shape society.

Intentional Dialogue

Not a debate, but an exchange characterized by five key features: Love, Humility, Hope, Critical Thinking, and Trust.

Social Identities

Categories including race, gender, etc.

Attending

Listening skill to tune into nonverbal cues of others.

Bridging the Gap

Listening skill, basically respectful conversation.

Six Major Listening Skills

Attending, Encouraging, Paraphrasing, Reflecting, Asking, and Sammarizing.

Imposition

When someone tries to enforce their way of thinking on you.

Efferent Reading

Skimming, reading something quickly

Ancedote

Personal story to illustrate a larger point.

Humor

Use of comedy to engage audience or expose poor idea.

Irony

Statements contrasting the expected.

Direct Address

Referring to audience directly.

Repetition

Reusing a phrase to emphasize it.

Contrast

Placing opposing ideas side by side.

Reframing

Presenting a familiar concept from a new POV.

Rhetorical Question

A question not needing an actual answer.

Inclusive Language

Language using terms like we, us, and our.

Concession

Acknowledging opposing POV.

Diction

Deliberate word choice.

Provocative Language

Uncomfy language to gain attention.

Ethos

An appeal based on speaker's credibility.

Pathos

An appeal to audience's emotions and values.

Logos

An appeal to reason through evidence.