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
