Final Exam Flashcards
Learn Final Exam
Ethos
Establish credibility: demonstrating knowledge; establishing common ground: and demonstrating fairness.
Logos
An appeal to logic: providing examples and precedents; citing authority and testimony; establishing cause and effects.
Pathos
An appeal to passion and emotion: using description and concrete language; using figurative language (metaphors, similes, analogies); shaping your appeal to your audience.
Judge or Jury
has to make a decision about some past event. Was it just or unjust?
Legislator or voter
has to make a decision about some future action. Is it advantageous or disadvantageous?
Spectator
has to make a judgment about an individual’s character. Is person acting noble or shameful?
Forensic Rhetoric
aims at persuading an audience that a particular past action was just or unjust
Deliberative Rhetoric
aims at persuading an audience that a future action is advantageous or disadvantageous.
Epideictic Rhetoric
aims at persuading an audience that a particular subject/individual is noble or base.
Narration
Tells a story in chronological order; has a beginning, middle, and end, but not necessarily in that sequence.
Description
Uses sensory details and analogies; uses the concrete to convey the abstract.
Illustration
Uses examples to support ideas.
Definition
Specifies the subject; gives a precise meaning.
Division
Separates the main subject into its elements and examines the relationship between the elements.
Classification
seperates a large group into smaller gorups based on the charateristics of the individual terms.
Comparison and Contrast
identifies similarities and differences between relevant ideas to the subject.
Cause and Effect
explains why; includes an immediate cause; can include an ultimate cause that is part of a causal chain.
Process Analysis
explains how; includes how something happens or is accomplished; uses many transitional words.
Genre
Genre is the conventional form that writing takes in a certain context.
Thesis Statement
A thesis statement is the central or main idea to which all of the essay’s paragraphs including both general and specific information, relate.
Phrase and Clause
A phrase does not contain a subject and a verb while a clause does contain a subject and a verb.
What is the gerneal subject?
What is the gerneal subject?
What is the thesis (the overall main point)?
What is the thesis (the overall main point)?
What is the tone of the text?
What is the tone of the text?
What is the writers’ prupose?
What is the writers’ prupose?
How does the writer develop his/her ideas.
How does the writer develop his/her ideas.
How does the writer arrange his/her ideas?
How does the writer arrange his/her ideas?
Is the text unified and coherent?
Is the text unified and coherent?
What is the sentence structure like in the text?
What is the sentence structure like in the text?
Does the writer use dialogue?
Does the writer use dialogue?
How does the writer use diction?
How does the writer use diction?
