Rhetorical Strategies Analysis Flashcards
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Iglesias exploits the ambiguous meaning of the term independence to defend the actions of toddlers setting fire to the schoolhouse.
Analyzing the definitions
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Conrad (narrates/tells/offers) a harrowing story of danger and terror to illustrate the problems with relying too much
on the government’s official warnings.
Analyzing the evidence
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Livermore emphasizes her role as a patriotic American while criticizing the government’s handling of immigration.
Analyzing the adopted persona of the speaker
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Xi’s short telegraphic sentences are meant to reveal an honest, no-nonsense persona who deserves to be taken seriously.
Analyzing the syntax
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Eaton implies that spending time in a coffee house is inherently wasteful and useless and so therefore the people there must not be productive members of society.
Analyzing the Assumptions
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Oppenheimer accentuates his reasonable attitude towards Democrats by conceding that some of their criticisms have
merit.
Analyzing the attitude towards the audience.
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Anderson makes the controversial claim that aliens exist on the planet Zargon to a skeptical audience but qualifies it
with a concession that our measurements could be faulty.
Analyzing the claim.
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Nehru indirectly reminds us of her previous experience in the Olympics in order to argue that her opinion on the track
controversy is more credible.
Analyzing the credentials of a speaker
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Egon evokes a gentle nostalgia as he describes the way education in America used to be so that he can more easily
criticize our current mania for testing and credentialing.
Analyzing the emotional appeal
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Lionage’s chatty, conversational language belies his searing indictment of the paycheck loan industry.
Analyzing the tone
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Georgio sets up a sharp delineation in his argument: either Pokémon is an evil plot to enslave the world’s children or it’s
the most insidious waste of time the world has ever known.
Analyzing the rhetorical fallacies
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Quartermain tries to invoke in his audience a shared identity as careful drivers with a commitment to highway safety
and warns of the incursions planned by irresponsible motorcyclists.
Analyzing the attempt to invoke a tribal identity
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Undermeyer likens efforts to combat infectious diseases to efforts to combat raging forest fires to focus on the disastrous consequences of inaction.
Analyzing the framing device.
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Pickety proclaims his absolute disgust at the actions of the Facebook executives in order to rally his coalition behind
serious regulation of the company’s practices.
Analyzing the attitude towards the opponent.
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Illaine compares the modern medical establishment to the dunderheaded and grotesque surgeons of the 18th century
because she wants her audience to mistrust doctors who overprescribe opioids.
Analyzing the associations of the opponent.
