Unit 1 Flashcards
What are the three types of rhetorical appeals?
1.) Ethos
2.) Logos
3.) Pathos
Define: ethos
Ethos is an appeal to credibility, established by status, professionalism, or celebrity endorsement.
Define: rhetoric
Persuasive appeals employed in communication to advise or urge someone to act in a specific way.
Claim
Primary statement or point used to prove or support an argument.
Pathos
Rhetorical appeal to emotion that intends to evoke the audience’s feelings to persuade them to do something
Logos
Rhetorical Appeal to logic that uses facts, research or evidence to convince an audience to do something
Author of Coyote and the Buffalo
Mourning Dove
Spanish 16th century explorer who wrote travel narrative about the Navarez expedition to “The New World”
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca
Oral Tradition
Stories and beliefs passed down by word of mouth through generations of a culture. Oftentimes are recorded in text later.
Creation Myth
A creation myth is a traditional, religious, or cultural story that explains how
the world began, usually as a result of a deity’s actions often beginning in the oral tradition.
Travel Narrative
A travel narrative is an account of a journey that provides information about the ethnographic, biogeographic, and/or physical characteristics of an area.
Four Key Elements of a Travel Narrative:
1.) Location (geography)
2.) Transportation
3.) Housing
4.) Climate
Pronouns used in First Person POV
“I”, “me”, “my”
Most common pronoun used in Second Person POV
You
Two types of Third Person POV:
1.) Omniscient 2.) Limited
Omniscient Third Person:
Outside narrator has access to the thoughts, feelings and actions of all characters at all times
Third Person Limited POV
Outside narrator only has access to one (central) character’s thoughts and feelings and can only remark on actions and speech of other characters
When Did Christopher Columbus make his voyage to America?
1492
America officially separated from what country and when?
England; 1776
What ship did the first English colonists use to sail to America?
The Mayflower
Woman whose strong religious convictions divided the Puritan church in Massachusetts Bay Colony and eventually was banished
Anne Hutchinson
The American Constitution formed what kind of government (centralized/decentralized) and (included/excluded) a monarchy.
Centralized government; excluded monarchy
Who was the first president of the US?
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
One of America’s founding fathers, signed declaration of independence and helped write the constitution; founded the first public library.
What did The Fugitive Slave Act prohibit?
Anyone helping a runaway slave escape their slavery/master
Cotton Gin
Machine engine that separates cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney. The cotton gin made cotton extremely profitable as the south was able to produce much more, supplying it all over the world.
Second President of US
John Adams
Captain John Smith
Admiral of New England, English soldier, sailor and author, founded Jamestown and wrote travel narratives as well as other works
Edward Winslow
Pilgrim leader on Mayflower and governor of Plymouth colony
Anne Bradstreet
First American poet and female author to be published in the colonies
What two famous revolutionary pamphlets did Thomas Paine write?
Common Sense (circulated in the US) and The Rights of Man (circulated in France)
Credible sources are _______ reviewed
Peer
4 pieces of information a credible source should have:
1.) publisher
2.) author
3.) date
4.) intended audience
.com
commercial entity
.org
non-profit organization
.gov
government organization
.mil
military
.edu
educational organization (ex. a university)
Yes or No- Is Wikipedia a credible source?
No
Where should you look on Wikipedia for finding credible sources?
Works Cited or Further Reading
