AP English Language and Composition: Rhetorical Situation

What does rhetorical situation mean or refer to?

• A reference to the exigence, purpose, audience, context, and message. and conclusions appropriate to the purpose and context of the rhetorical situation.

• Any set of circumstances that involves a person using some sort of communication to change the perspective of another person.

• It answers the question "Who is talking to whom about what, how, and why?

• All of the above.

Why would it be important to know who the speaker or writer is, as well as something about the person's background?

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

The __________ is the person or group of people the speaker or writer is addressing or trying to appeal to.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Within the context of a rhetorical situation, what does exigence mean?

• It is the evidence that supports a writer's or speaker's main argument.

• It is the counterargument that the writer or speaker rebuts or refutes.

• It is the part of a rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers or speakers to create a text or speech.

• It is the sense of urgency with which the writer or speaker makes his or her argument.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Check all the answers that correctly describe the word context within a rhetorical situation.

• The circumstances surrounding an act of reading and/or composition

• It includes the writer or speaker's purpose, audience and focus.

• The time, location, events, and culture surrounding the writing or speaking of the piece.

• What the writer or speaker is trying to communicate to the audience.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

Ethos

• appeal to audience's emotions

• appeal to facts, evidence, reasoning

• appeal to credibility, character, reputation

• appeal to humor, guilt, explicit emotions

Pathos

• appeals to audience's emotion

• appeals to facts, evidence, reasoning

• appeals to credibility, character, or reputation

• appeals to the message of the speech

Logos

• appeals to audience's emotion

• appeals to credibility, character or reputation

• appeals to facts, evidence, and reasoning

• appeals to values and beliefs

What is context?

• Writers create text within a particular context that includes, the time, place and occasion

• The person or people receiving a text.

• The reason for a text's existence; not the topic.

• The source of a text; the person who has created the text.

Tone

• author's notes

• author's feelings

• author's attitude

• author's appeal