Unit 1 Terms

Question 1

Rhetoric

Answer 1

The art of effective communication. The relationships between the audience, the writer, and the subject.

Question 2

Rhetorical Situation

Answer 2

Purpose, audience, topic, writer, and context. Better describe the circumstances and contexts of a piece of writing.

Question 3

Audience

Answer 3

The listener or reader of a text.

Question 4

Speaker

Answer 4

The person of group who creates any kind of text.

Question 5

Persona

Answer 5

The character or role adopted by a writer/speaker in their work.

Question 6

Subject

Answer 6

The general topic, content, and ideas contained in the text.

Question 7

Genre

Answer 7

The specific type of work being presented.

Question 8

Context

Answer 8

The extra-textual environment in which the text is being delivered.

Question 9

Exigence

Answer 9

The part of a rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers to create a text.

Question 10

Purpose

Answer 10

The authors persuasive intention.

Question 11

Message

Answer 11

The main idea the speaker communicated to the audience in order to achieve the purpose.

Question 12

Rhetorical Appeals

Answer 12

The qualities of an argument that makes it truly pursuasive.

Question 13

Pathos

Answer 13

Appeals to emotion.

Question 14

Propagandistic

Answer 14

The use of a variety of communication techniques that create an emotional appeal to accept a particular belief or opinion, to adopt a certain behavior, or to perform a particular action.

Question 15

Polemical

Answer 15

An aggressive argument that tried to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others.

Question 16

Logos

Answer 16

To appeal to the audiences sense of reason or logic.

Question 17

Counterargument

Answer 17

Acknowledging standpoints that go against your argument and then re-affirming your argument.

Question 18

Concession (Concede)

Answer 18

Granting something as right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat.

Question 19

Refutation (Refute)

Answer 19

Sentences which explain why the counterargument is not as strong as the original argument.

Question 20

Ethos

Answer 20

Focuses attention on the writers or speakers trustworthiness.

Question 21

Diction

Answer 21

Word choice, particularly as an element of style.

Question 22

Denotation

Answer 22

The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude or color.

Question 23

Connotation

Answer 23

The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied suggested meaning.

Question 24

Tone

Answer 24

The authors attitude or feelings towards the subject matter of a text.