Rhetorical Vocabulary

What happens or fails to happen in that situation? Why is one compelled to speak out? What is going on at the time? What belief, idea, or action does the speaker want to change in THIS moment.

• Ethos

• Occasion

• Exigence

• Audience

A situation in which something happens, or fails to happen, that compels one to speak out.

• The Rhetorical Situation

• Logos

• The Rhetorical Framework

• The Rhetorical Appeals

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A strategy of reason, logic, or facts. Any type of argument which appeals to someone's rational and logical side.

• Pathos

• Kairos

• Ethos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

An author's attitude toward a subject.

• Style

• Logos

• Ethos

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Refers to the spectators, listeners, and intended readers of a writing, performance, or speech.

• Occasion

• Exigence

• Audience

• Message

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A contradiction or incongruity between appearance or expectation and reality

• irony

• monotony

• cacaphony

• foreshadwoing

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A trope in which human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman, from an abstract idea to a physical force to an inanimate object to a living organism.

• dystopia

• personification

• animation

• meiosis

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. MLK Jr.

This is an example of

• anaphora

• cacophony

• utopia

• dispepsia

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a question, not to be answered, posed by the speaker/author in order to bring attention to an issue; used to lean on the emotions of an audience

• paradox

• pun

• understatement

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A statement that appears to be self contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains a degree of truth is...

• Ambiguous

• A paradox

• An antithesis

• An anaphora