Rhetorical Terms Review

The moves and tools that a speaker uses in order to make their message more meaningful, effective, and persuasive.

• Rhetorical Techniques

• Textual Evidence

• Rhetorical Triangle

• Rhetorical Précis

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What the speaker/author wants to achieve with the text. What they want the audience/reader to think, believe, or do after having read their text. This is the main reason for creating the text.

• Central/Main Idea

• Purpose

• Claim

• Counterclaim

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

The character or emotions of a speaker that are expressed in an attempt to persuade an audience.

The appeal to morality and ethics that a speaker makes in order to persuade an audience.

• Speaker

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The persuasive appeal to the audience’s logic and rationality, often using data, numbers, statistics, and reasoning to convince the audience intellectually.

• Speaker

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The appeal to the emotions of an audience by creating an emotional response and connection to the argument made by the speaker.

• Speaker

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The use of words in a way that deviates from conventional or literal meaning. This type of language helps make an argument more meaningful, colorful, evocative, and stylistic.

• Rhetorical Techniques

• Rhetorical Triangle

• Rhetorical Précis

• Figurative Language

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Any message or argument that is communicated by a speaker/author. This could include any visual, verbal, or auditory message (i.e. essays, articles, books, speeches, advertisements, commercials, movies, TV shows, podcasts, art, etc.)

• Claim

• Central/Main Idea

• Text

• Textual Evidence

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

A main point that the author is making. What the text is mostly about. The thesis of the text: One sentence that states what the article is about.

• Central/Main Idea

• Claim

• Purpose

• Counterclaim

There are 2 of these: (1) Ethos-Pathos-Logos; (2) The Rhetorical Situation and elements of an argument: Speaker, Audience, Message, Purpose, Context

• Rhetorical Techniques

• Rhetorical Triangle

• Rhetorical Précis

• Figurative Language

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The recipients of an argument, either as readers, viewers, or listeners.

Often, this term applies moreso to the intended recipients of an argument, or, the specific group(s) of people that a speaker wishes to target their message.

• Text

• Claim

• Diction

• Audience

Tags

CCSS.SL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.1B

CCSS.W.11-12.2B