AP Language and Composition Midterm
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- Understanding Persona
- He/she can speak or write so that the audience perceives him or her as a distinct character.
- Enthymeme
- resembles a syllogism in the movement of its own logic
- Rhetoric and Consumer Consumption
- if you can read materials with a discerning eye; if you can scope out a situation and understand what is at issue in spoken and written documents and discussions; and if you can speak and write clearly, fluently, and correctly, then you are going to be much stronger position to succeed in whatever intellectual task you tackle
- Ethos
- A rhetor offers evidence that he or she is credible- that he or she knows important and relevant info about the topic and is a believable person who has his best interest in mind.
- Rhetoric and Community
- you are also in a better position to understand and respond to important issues in your local community
- Being "skilled" at Rhetoric
- Being able to make good speeches and write good papers, but it also means having the ability to read other people's compositions and listen to their spoken words with a discerning eye and a critical ear. OR Reading not only to understand the main and supporting points of what someone writes, but also to analyze the decisions the rhetor makes as he or she works to accomplish a purpose for a specific audience.
- Burkes Pentad
- Act Scene Agent Agnecy Purpose
- Understanding Genre
- consider the genre that would work best in order to get your point across.
- Rhetoric and Citizenship
- to comprehend laws, speeches, important works, so that if they can be a) informed and b) if they oppose they can skillfully write an argument against the work
- Memory
- included in rhetoric when there was more oral language than written.
- Aesthetic reading
- The kind of reading you do when you want to be immersed in the idea of the story
- Journalistic Questions
- Who what when where why how
- Pathos
- a rhetor draws on the emotions of the audience so they will be sympathetically inclined to accept and buy into his/her central ideas and arguments.
- Syllogism
- the logical reasoning from beliefs and statements
- Understanding Context
- Rhetors understand that no text stands alone
- Logos
- a rhetor offers a clear, reasonable central idea (or set of ideas) and developing it with appropriate reasoning, examples or details. ( LOGIC)
- Pattern of Syllogism
- Major Premise, Minor Premise, Conclusion
- Efferent Reading
- The kind of reading you do when you are looking for information.
- Invention
- strategies help you to generate material that is clear, forceful, convincing, and emotionally appealing.
- Understanding Intention
- what he or she wants the audience to believe or do after hearing or reading the text.
- Rhetoric
- The art that humans use to process all the messages we send and receive. OR assumes the speaker or writer is searching for methods to persuade hearers or readers because he or she has something valuable to say, something that arises from his or her position as an honest, inquiring, ethical person.
- Arrangement
- Introduction, Statement of Facts, Division, Proof, Refutation, Conclusion
- Delivery
- include stylistic choices that let the readers hear some words more loudly than others - setting off words in a paragraph, for example with hyphens or ellipsis marks, or capitalization.
- Style
- choices the writer makes regarding words, phrases, and sentences.