Rhetorical Analysis Review Quiz

What is your job as a WRITER in the rhetorical analysis essay?

• to analyze the author's overall purpose and to identify powerful choices that allowed the author to achieve his or her purpose
• to argue what you believe and specific reasons why you believe.
• to argue what you believe and specific reasons why you believe and to use the provided sources to support your thinking

What is the rhetorical situation? Select all that apply

• The Speaker's Background and Credibility
• The intended audience (and any secondary audiences)
• Context
• Exigence
• The author's overall purpose

Define the context surrounding a text?

• What is happening in the world that could affect an argument
• What is being described within the text that affects the audience or speaker
• What prompted the writer to speak when he or she did
• the intended or secondary audience of a text

Define the exigence of a text.

• What is happening in the world that could affect an argument
• What is being described within the text that affects the audience or speaker
• What prompted the writer to speak when he or she did
• the intended or secondary audience of a text

Define the purpose of a text.

• What is happening in the world that could affect an argument
• What is being described within the text that affects the audience or speaker
• What prompted the writer to speak when he or she did
• the intended or secondary audience of a text
• What the author wants the audience to think OR learn OR do.

Identify the bolded part of the thesis statement: In the movie The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin, a famous silent film movie star, delivers a powerful critique of authoritarianism to an audience suffering through the plight of World War II. Chaplin uses collective language to build a rapport between himself and his audience, infuses logical reasoning through the use of varied examples and pointed claims to bring credibility to his argument, and crafts a urging call-to-action demanding his audience to speak and act against tyranny. Chaplin pleads with his global audience to fight for unity and resistance against tyrannous leaders and governments.

• The rhetorical situation
• Rhetorical Choices + Why
• Overall Purpose

Identify the bolded part of the thesis statement: In the movie The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin, a famous silent film movie star, delivers a powerful critique of authoritarianism to an audience suffering through the plight of World War II. Chaplin uses collective language to build a rapport between himself and his audience, infuses logical reasoning through the use of varied examples and pointed claims to bring credibility to his argument, and crafts a urging call-to-action demanding his audience to speak and act against tyranny. Chaplin pleads with his global audience to fight for unity and resistance against tyrannous leaders and governments.

• The rhetorical situation
• Rhetorical choices + why
• The overall purpose of the text

Identify the bolded part of the thesis statement: In the movie The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin, a famous silent film movie star, delivers a powerful critique of authoritarianism to an audience suffering through the plight of World War II. Chaplin uses collective language to build a rapport between himself and his audience, infuses logical reasoning through the use of varied examples and pointed claims to bring credibility to his argument, and crafts a urging call-to-action demanding his audience to speak and act against tyranny. Chaplin pleads with his global audience to fight for unity and resistance against tyrannous leaders and governments.

• The rhetorical situation
• Rhetorical Choices + Why
• Overall Purpose

Based on this thesis statement, what choice will claim #3 focus on: In the movie The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin, a famous silent film movie star, delivers a powerful critique of authoritarianism to an audience suffering through the plight of World War II. Chaplin uses collective language to build a rapport between himself and his audience, infuses logical reasoning through the use of varied examples and pointed claims to bring credibility to his argument, and crafts a urging call-to-action demanding his audience to speak and act against tyranny. Chaplin pleads with his global audience to fight for unity and resistance against tyrannous leaders and governments.

• uses collective language to build a rapport between himself and his audience
• infuses logical reasoning through the use of varied examples
• crafts a urging call-to-action demanding his audience to speak and act against tyranny.

Which of the following claims is an example of a positional claim:

• In the end of her speech, Kelly elicits a direct call to action as she attempts to persuade her female audience to appeal to the men in their lives to use their voice and their vote to put an end to child labor.
• Kelly shifts from generalized conditions to illustrating the conditions within specific states, including statistics when relevant, and detailing the holistic impact of suffrage to showcase that child labor is happening everywhere
• After illustrating vividly and factually the conditions of child labor, Kelly speaks directly to her audience and asks for their participation in this cause.