Class notes (9/20-9/24)

Literary Terms

-The class needs to study literary terms to prepare for the AP exam.

-A good source of words is the Quizlet that can be accessed through the Spruz website.

-Look for large numbers of words in an entry, these are usually good lists.

-Then compare them to definitions you already know.

-Study away.

Rhetorical Situation

-The art of communication

-The rhetorical situation is the context for communication

• situation in which the communication takes place
• if communicating, one will try to analyze the rhetorical situation before composing a message, leading to a plan (Holmes)

-Subject

• What is your topic?
• What main ideas
• Broaden, narrow, or refocus
• details, examples, explanations
• what do you need

-Purpose

• What do you want to get out of it
• to entertain
• to reflect
• to inform
• to persuade
• It is alright and often productive to mix purposes, for example if satire is used well it can inform and entertain

-Audience

• What age group? old, teens, college students, middle-aged adults?
• Social, political, or religious bias
• expectations

-Speaker (persona)

• who will be speaking, you or a fictional character
• what characteristics will best connect you to the audience
• what attitude will be most effective

Argument: a way to accomplish persuasion

 

 -Types

• Ethos "ethics": arguments on ethics try to appeal to the morality of the audience
• Logos "Logic": arguments that are constructed based on logical progression of facts
• Pathos "emotions": arguments that try to appeal to the emotions of the audience

-Thesis: one main point, always an opinion, not a fact

-Claim:an assertation- an idea that is not a simple fact or or to obvious, more than one should be used to support the thesis

-Warrant: an explanation of your reasoning that shows what your evidence means, they tie evidence to claims

-Evidence: facts that show claims as reasonable

 -Necessary: needed, necessary elements that cannot be ignored

-Sufficient: when the condition of sufficiency is met, "enough" has been done to satisfy the argument.

Example: the man that walks be my house every day is planning to rob it. this thesis, has not become an argument because it still has necessary elements left out. It is not sufficient.

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