--Roll --Quiz ====================================================== Discuss genre, audience, and purpose and adapting to the rhetorical triangle: logos, pathos, and ethos. --rhetoric: 1. a. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively. b. A treatise or book discussing this art. 2. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively. 3. a. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject: fiery political rhetoric. b. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric. 4. Verbal communication; discourse. --Genre: A type or class --Rhetorical Situation speaker, subject, audience Audience --Simple ; complex Appeals: --Ethos, pathos, logos Deductive argument begins with generalization and then cites a specific case related to that generalization, from which follows a conclusion. In the claim, support, conclusion method. (Claim) All cats are cute. (Support) Galahad is a cat. (Conclusion) Galahad is cute. Inductive reasoning begins with several pieces of evidence and that evidence is built together into a conclusion. card-stacking college-related issue: (club closing hours, parking, issue relevant to major) ethos appeal to support it pathos appeal to support it ====================================================== --Return Diagnostic Essays