Chap 1-3 Flashcards

1
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Rhetoric definition

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Art of finding ways to persuade / convince an audience

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2
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Rhetorical situation

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TCSOAPS(TONE CONTEXT SPEAKER OCCASION AUDIENCE PURPOSE SUBJECT)

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3
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Types of audiences

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Real intended invoked

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4
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Intended audience

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Audience speech is for

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5
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Real audience

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Who is actually reading it

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6
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Invoked audience

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Audience specifically named, “ you “

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7
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Purpose for learning rhetoric

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Be aware of manipulation, appreciate effective communication, learn to communicate honestly

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8
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Characteristics of argument

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Take a position, arguable, viable

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9
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Lots of pathos, already knows “ the truth”

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Pursaussion

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10
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Argument

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Develop a stance, understand other ideas, dialogue and civility

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11
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Both persuasion and argument

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Change / reconsider opinions

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12
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Ethos

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Establish credibility by who you are and what you say

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13
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Automatic ethos

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Reputation already been established

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14
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How to establish ethos

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Acknowledge you don’t have automatic ethos and anticipate concerns, emphasize shared values

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15
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Pathos

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Emotion, uses word connotation, plays on desires values and hopes

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16
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Connotation definition

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Association with a word

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17
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Spread of ideas and info to further a cause, overuse of pathos

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Propaganda

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18
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Logos

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Logic, uses concessions in reputations, identifies connections, stats etc

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19
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Rhetorical appeals

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Techniques to persuade by emphasis on what audience finds important

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20
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Denial of validity of other arguments

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Refutation

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21
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Circumstances atmospheres attitudes and events surrounding a text

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Context

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22
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Person or group who creates the text, has a persona

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Speaker dude

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23
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Circumstances / timer place surrounding creation of a text

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Occasion

24
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Reader of text

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Audience

25
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Goal the speaker is trying to achieve

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Purpose

26
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Relationship between speaker audience and subject in a text

A

Rhetoric triangle

27
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Techniques for annotating

A

Ask questions, reread, says and does, annotate for main ideas and figures of speech, graphic organizer

28
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Questions to ask when analyzing diction and syntax

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What is the author’s driving for? How does she create the effect? How does the effect serve the purpose?

29
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Rhetoric strategies definition

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Appeals to logic emotion and Goodwill

30
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Choice of words

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Diction

31
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How words are arranged

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Syntax

32
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Brief reference to a person event place or art

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Allusion

33
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Repetition of the same sound

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Alliteration

34
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Sentence used to command / enjoin: citizens ask what can we do together, not how we can do it.

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Imperative sentence

35
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Repetition of a word

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Anaphora

36
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Similar structure in a phrases

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Parallelism

37
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Question posed for rhetoric effect

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Rhetoric question

38
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Persuasive discourse, coherent movement from claim to conclusion

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Argument

39
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Criteria of argumentative claim

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Take position, arguable, viable

40
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States the main idea and position of argument

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Claim

41
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States that something is true or untrue

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Claim of fact

42
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States that something is good or bad

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Claim of value

43
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Proposes a change

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Claim of policy

44
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Types of evidence

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Relevant accurate sufficient

45
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Specifically applies to the argument

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Relevant evidence

46
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Avoids bias is credible uses quotes correctly

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Accurate evidence

47
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Enough evidence to support thesis

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Sufficient evidence

48
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Vulnerability or weakness in an argument

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Logical fallacy

49
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Speaker switches topics to distract from real issue

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Red herring

50
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Attack on opponent’s character

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Ad hominem

51
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Compares two things that are not comparable

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Faulty analogy

52
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Oversimplifies or exaggerates an opposing viewpoint

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Straw man

53
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Assumes there are only two choices or outcomes

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False dilemma

54
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Faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence

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Hasty generalization

55
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Repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence

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Circular reasoning

56
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Assuming first event cause the second event

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Post hoc

57
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Someone with an adequate expertise is cited as an authority

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Appeal to false authority