Rhetorical Analysis Key Terms

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Across
  1. 1. The "rhetoric goal," or what the writer/composer wants their audience to do in response to engaging with the composition.
  2. 3. What is happening at the time of the event, or what affects the event.
  3. 4. Limitations, or what the genre cannot achieve.
  4. 6. Elements that make up the genre's structure. What we expect to find when we examine a particular genre.
  5. 9. Persuasive strategies used in rhetoric (ethos, pathos, and logos; know their definitions).
  6. 10. The use of language to develop meaning and/or produce action. Think about how information is expressed or conveyed using different strategies.
  7. 12. The channel or system of communication - the means by which information (the message) is transmitted between a rhetor and an audience. In composition, it is often talked alongside genres.
Down
  1. 2. Includes an exigence, an audience, and constraints (know the definitions of each).
  2. 5. How the information is ordered and styled to impact how the audience reacts.
  3. 7. A problem or situation that inspires discourse to occur.
  4. 8. A category of composition that is formed in response to recurring rhetorical situations.
  5. 11. Those that are reached, persuaded, or targeted by a particular genre, who can react to or affect change or solve the problem of the exigence.