Conventions of Nonfiction

Question 1

Name the subgenres.

Answer 1

Annals (The) Anal,
Autobiographies Automatic
Biographies Biographer
Chronicles Chronicled
Diaries Disastrous
Essays Escapades
Letters Leaving
Manifestos Manifestos (and)
Memoirs Memoirs
Philosophical texts Para
Speeches Sarah.

Question 2

What is the audience and context, and what do these two factors determine?

Answer 2

date of publication/delivery
Context: the occasion
They determine the register and the tone.

Question 3

What is the register? (give list of all the registers).

How is it determined? What does it influence?

Answer 3

Archaic                 A
Colloquial             Catty,
Formal                  Ferocious
Informal                Iguana
Slang                    Shot
Technical              Tim.

It is determined by context.
It influences the tone.

Question 4

Persuasive techniques: what is the rhetorical triangle?

Answer 4

Ethos (authority), Pathos (an emotional connection with the reader), and logos (an argument with credibility), must be balanced to make a good persuasive essay.

Question 5

What are the parts of the rhetorical triangle and what do they account for?

Answer 5

Ethos: The Speaker has authority, credibility, correctness, appearance, articulateness and eloquence. (Communicator)

Pathos: Audience, emotional connection. (Audience)

Logos: Content of message, reasoning and logic, data, evidence, structure, analysis. (Message)

Question 6

Rhetorical devices: Name the sentence terms.

Answer 6

Telegraphic sentence
Loose sentence
Periodic sentence
Interrupted order

Question 7

Rhetorical devices: Name the three main devices.

Answer 7

Syntax, Repetition, Parallel structure.

Question 8

what are the terms for parallel structure?

Answer 8

Anaphora/Epistrophe
Antithesis–>Chiasmus
Polysyndeton and Asyndeton
Epizuexis