The Rhetorical Web: A Toolkit for Strong Literary Analysis Flashcards
The real -life, dramatic situation that signals individuals that something controversial has occurred and that they should try to make some sense of it. (??) is a problem to be solved, a situation that requires some modifying response from an audience. (??) invites analysis and discussion, and sometimes also a written response to encourage both individual and public awareness, as well as discourse about problematic situations.
Exigence
A writer’s reason for trying to convey a particular idea (Thesis) about a particular subject to a particular audience of readers. Though it may emerge gradually during the writing process, in the end (??) should govern every element of a piece of writing.
Purpose
The (??) or reader is the second element in the rhetorical situation. For argument to work, a potential (??) must care enough to listen, read, and pay attention, to change its perceptions as a result of the argument, and hopefully, even have the ability to mediate change or act in a new way.
Audience
The pattern or order that the writer imposes on his or her material. Some often—used patterns of (??) include time order, space order, and order of importance.
Organization
The internal organization of writing.
Structure
The external pattern or shape of writing, describable without reference to its content.
Form
Refers to the way in which words are arranged to form phrases, clauses, and sentences, as well as to the grammatical relationship among the words themselves.
Syntax
The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. Although most images appeal to the sense of sight, they also sometimes, appeal to the sense of taste, smell, hearing, and touch as well.
Imagery
Expressions that depart from the literal meanings of words for the sake of emphasis or vividness. To say. “She’s a jewel” does not mean that the subject of praise is literally a kind of shining stone; the statement make sense because its connotations come to mind: rare, priceless, worth cherishing.
Figurative Language
A (??) (from the Latin “likeness”) states the comparison directly, usually connecting the two things using I like, as, or than.
Simile
A (??) (from the Greek “u‘ansfer“) declares one thing to be another.
Metaphor
is a simile or metaphor that assigns human traits to inanimate objects or abstractions.
Personification
(??)(from the Greek “throwing beyond“) is a conscious exaggeration.
Hyperbole
The opposite of hyperbole, (??), creates an ironic or humorous effect.
Understatement
A (??) (from the Greek, “conflicting with expectation”) is a seemingly self-contradictory statement that, on reflection, makes sense.
Paradox
The choice of words. Every written or spoken statement contains (??) of some kind.
Diction
the common American language, words and grammatical forms that are used and expected in school, business, and other sites.
Standard English
words and grammatical forms such as theirselves and ain’t that are used mainly by people who speak a dialect other than Standard English.
Nonstandard English
a variety of English based on differences in geography, education, or social background. (??) is usually spoken, but may be written.
Dialect
certain words in highly informal speech or writing, or in the speech of a particular group.
Slang
words and phrase s occurring primarily in speech and in informal writing that seeks a relaxed conversations ton. Such choice of writing may be acceptable in talking to a roommate, in corresponding with a friend, or in writing a humorous essay for general readers. However, it would be out of place in formal writing. Contractions (let’s, don’t, we’ll) and abbreviated words (photo, sales rep, ad) are the shorthand of spoken language. Good writers use such expressions with an awareness that they produce an effect of casualness.
Colloquial Expressions
words hear in a certain locality, such as spritzlng for “raining” in Pennsylvania Dutch county.
Regional terms
