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Strategies & Appeals
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1How the author addresses their audience can be a rhetorical strategy.
- ATrue
- BFalse
2When discussing rhetorical strategies, you should:
- AIdentify/name the strategy
- BDescribe how it works
- CDescribe why it is used/what purpose it accomplishes
- DAll of the above
3A rhetorical "move" is WHAT the author is trying to accomplish, while rhetorical strategies are HOW they're trying to accomplish it.
- ATrue
- BFalse
4The effectiveness of a rhetorical strategy depends on the rhetorical situation (audience, author, context, genre, purpose)
- ATrue
- BFalse
5Logos is the most objective appeal, because it uses facts and statistics to make an argument
- ATrue
- BFalse
6The three Aristotelian appeals are:
- ACredos, pathos, logos
- BEthos, pathos, logos
- CLogos, empathos, ethos
- DLogic, credibility, empathy
7To be persuasive, a writer usually needs to establish that they are [blank_start]credible[blank_end] (trustworthy, fair, caring, knowledgeable, and ethical). They can also persuade by appealing to the audience’s [blank_start]emotions[blank_end], stirring their pride, fostering resentment or fear, conjuring pity, making us care, or playing on the many other emotions we experience. Lastly, and in academic writing most importantly, writers persuade through the power of their [blank_start]reasoning[blank_end], the tightness of their argument, and the strength of the evidence.
- Acredible
- Ban expert
- Ca dinosaur
- Dunbiased
- Eparents
- Fbiases
- Gfears
- Hemotions
- Ipersuasion
- Jcharisma
- Kreasoning
- Lintellect
8What makes an author appear trustworthy will vary depending on the audience and context.
- ATrue
- BFalse
9The Aristotelian appeals never occur together or overlap.
- ATrue
- BFalse
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- Introduction to Rhetoric 100 terms/concepts
- Author
- Brenda Taulbee
- Language
- English
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