SPACE CAT and Terms Quiz

Question 1

Purpose

Answer 1

what does the speaker hope to accomplish through this piece?

Question 2

Exigence

Answer 2

what specific social problem or events led to a perceived necessity for this piece?

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

when and where was the piece written, and what general information may be relevant?

Question 2

Choices

Answer 2

Structural or organizational choices, imagery, diction, rhetorical devices

Question 2

Appeals

Answer 2

How does the writer appeal to logos, pathos, or ethos. Focus on the HOW and WHY of these appeals

Question 2

Tone

Answer 2

What attitude does the author have with respect to the subject? For example: accusatory, ambivalent, sarcastic, scathing, cynical, joking, callous, pleading, admiring, reflective.

Question 3

Rhetoric

Answer 3

a speaker’s strategies (both verbal and nonverbal) for nudging an audience towards a particular way of thinking

Question 4

Rhetorical situation/rhetorical triangle

Answer 4

a way to think about the specific context that gives rhetoric its meaning- depicts the relationship among a speaker, audience, and subject

Question 5

Speaker

Answer 5

the person or group who is trying to persuade

Question 6

Audience

Answer 6

the person or group the speaker is trying to persuade

Question 7

Subject

Answer 7

the topic- not necessarily the argument or the purpose

Question 8

Rhetorical appeals

Answer 8

general ways a speaker might approach his audience to be more persuasive

Question 9

Pathos

Answer 9

the way a speaker appeals to emotion. what does the speaker want the audience to feel?

Question 10

Logos

Answer 10

the way a speaker appeals to facts and logic. what reasoning makes this text convincing?

Question 11

Ethos

Answer 11

the way a speaker appeals to character and shared values. what makes this person worth listening to?

Question 12

Argument

Answer 12

an invitation to a particular way of thinking

Question 13

Counterargument

Answer 13

anticipating objections or opposing views by acknowledging some reasonableness to the objection, but then denying the validity of all or part of that overall line of thinking

Question 14

Concession

Answer 14

acknowledging some truth to the opposing viewpoint

Question 15

Refutation

Answer 15

disproving the overall line of thinking of the opposing view

Question 16

(Although X, Y)

Answer 16

formula for making a complex argument by building in a counterargument

Question 17

Satire

Answer 17

an appeal to humor (pathos) that makes fun of a viewpoint with the aim of persuading the audience to see how ridiculous that way of thinking is

Question 18

Anaphora

Answer 18

Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive phrases

Question 19

Epistrophe

Answer 19

Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the ends of successive phrases

Question 20

Parallelism

Answer 20

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Question 21

Antithesis

Answer 21

The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure

Question 22

Polysyndeton

Answer 22

A list or series of words, phrases, or clauses connected with the repeated use of the same conjunction

Question 23

Asyndeton

Answer 23

A list or a series in which no conjunction is used at all; rather, all items are separated by commas

Question 24

Anadiplosis

Answer 24

Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

Question 25

Epanalepsis

Answer 25

Repetition of the same word or words at both beginning and ending of a phrase, clause, or sentence

Question 26

Periodic Sentences

Answer 26

A sentence which has been deliberately structured to place the main point at the end. Therefore, a periodic sentence will have its main clause or predicate as the last part

Question 27

Cumulative Sentences

Answer 27

Begins with a standard sentence pattern and adds multiple details after it

Question 28

Antimetabole

Answer 28

Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

Question 29

Chiasmus

Answer 29

Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses

Question 30

Anastrophe

Answer 30

Inverted sentence order

Question 31

Parenthesis

Answer 31

The insertion of some verbal unit that interrupts the normal flow of the sentence

Question 32

Tricolon: The Rule of Three

Answer 32

A writing principle that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective