ENGL 015 Lecture Notes - Pathos
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Rhetorical situation/exigence - relevance/ demand/ problem; opportunity to make a change with language. Rhetorical purpose - argue a point, but persuade a person. Forum - locate or medium of communication. Intellectual (ethos = character, credibility), statistics (evidence) Background: effective writing anticipates, shapes and satisfies a reader"s need for information. Rhetoric: phrase - participial phrase, present participle, past participle, clause - subject, predicate o. Grammatical descriptions of sentences deal with classifying words according to their function in the sentence. Rhetorical descriptions deal with the relational reality created when a reader or hearer encounter the sentence. Phrases - a phrase is a sequence of grammatically related words either without a subject or a predicate or lacking both. Clauses - a clause a group of related words that contains a subject and a predicate. 1: statement of facts - background/context (define audience, rhetorical situation, confirmation (proof to support your thesis, conclusion.
