Modes AP Lang

4 Modes of Rhetoric (discourse)

Narration:

• A story, or person who tells a sequence( start, middle, end). More on what happend than why it happend

Description:

• A form of “ word painting”. Not just a sequence,

• appeals to senses through vivid imagery and detailed language, allowing the reader to visualize and emotionally connect with the subject matter.

Argument:

• to persuade with reason or emotions. Tyring to convince your audience. Like ads to urge you to take action

Expostion:

• To inform and explain, not to persuade.

• simply lay out facts or truths objectivley

7 versions of expostion

• Examples: to point out something, can aid your statements

• Compare/contrast: find dikffrences and similar mthings between two things

• Process analysis: writing tha takes you througha series of steps, like a recipe or how to wriitn

• Analysis, division,and classificatiojn: breaking down ideas into components

• analogy: draw a parallel or good example to help bridge thoughts

• C&E: understanding sopmehting through the foactors tht led to it

• Definiton: a boundry for a topic