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LANG Rhetoric Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rhetorical Situation | The circumstances surrounding a piece of communication, including who is speaking, to whom, why, and in what circumstances |
| Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing |
| Speaker | The voice or person presenting the message to an audience. |
| Audience | The intended or actual people who receive and interpret a rhetorical message. |
| Purpose | The goal the speaker wants to accomplish through the text or speech |
| Context | The circumstances surrounding a rhetorical situation, including the historical, social, cultural, and immediate circumstances in which communication occurs |
| Exigence | The problem, situation, or event that prompts someone to communicate. |
| Style | The distinctive way a speaker or writer communicates, including their choice in using literary techniques. |
| Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject, audience, or situation, conveyed through language and rhetorical choices. |
| Mood | The emotional atmosphere or feeling experienced by the audience/reader as a result of the text. |
| Motif | A recurring element, image, idea, phrase, or symbol that contributes to a larger meaning or theme. |
| Modes of Discourse | The primary ways a writer develops and communicates ideas in a piece of writing. |
| Description | Uses sensory details and specific characteristics to help the audience visualize or understand a person, place, object, or idea. |
| Narration | Tells a story or recounts events, usually presenting what happened and in what sequence. |
| Argument | Presents a claim supported by evidence and reasoning in order to persuade an audience to accept a position. |
| Exposition | Explains or informs by presenting facts, ideas, concepts, or processes to increase the audience's understanding. |
| Rhetorical Appeals | Methods speakers and writers use to persuade an audience. |
| Ethos | An appeal based on the speaker's credibility, character, expertise, or trustworthiness. |
| Pathos | An appeal to the audience's emotions, values, or feelings. |
| Logos | An appeal based on logic, reasoning, evidence, facts, and relationships between ideas. |
| Stylistic & Structural Devices | Deliberate choices involving language, sentence construction, arrangement, and organization that shape meaning and affect an audience. |
| Syntax | The arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses in sentences. |
| Diction | A writer's specific choice of words. |
| Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. |
| Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often using a parallel grammatical structure. |
| Juxtaposition | The placement of two contrasting things or ideas close together in order to emphasize their differences. |
| Periodic Sentence | A sentence in which the main independent clause comes at the end, after introductory or dependent elements. |
| Loose Sentence | A sentence in which the main independent clause comes first, followed by additional modifying information. |
| Syllogism | A logical argument consisting of two premises that lead to a conclusion. |
| Figurative Language | Language that goes beyond its literal meaning to create comparisons, images, emphasis, or deeper meaning. |
| Imagery | Language that creates sensory experiences or mental pictures for the audience. |
| Irony | A contrast between what is expected or appears to be true and what actually happens or is meant. |
| Hyperbole | A deliberate and obvious exaggeration used for emphasis or effect. |
| Allusion | A brief, indirect reference to a well-known person, event, text, place, historical moment, or cultural idea. |
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