AP LANG vocab 1 Rheteric

rhetoric

the art of effective and persuasive speaking or writing

rhetorical situation (triangle)

speaker, audience, purpose/ subject

exigence

part of the rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes or prompts a writer to create a text

purpose

the narrator’s/ authors goal in writing or speaking the text

speaker/voice

the acknowledged or unacknowledged source of words of the story, the person making the argument

claim

a defensible position taken by a writer and supported by evidence( can be facts, anecdotes, analogies, statistics, expert opinions, personal observations, testimonies or experiments

ethos

appeal to authority: either claims to be an expert or relies on information provided by experts

pathos

appeal to emotions: affect the listener’s personal feelings

logos

appeal to logic: persuade through use of deductive reasoning

repetition

an author repeating words, phrases, or other key elements in order to emphasize their speaking goal

loaded language

word choice that carries strong positive or negative connotations and is intended to elicit a strong emotional response from the audience

parallelism

similarity in structures In a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses