Ethos
Credibility and ethics
ETHOCRED
Pathos
Emotions
Pathemo
Logos
Logic and reason
Diction:
Ex:
Used to:
Choice and use of words
Ex: formal,academic
Used to: envoke certain emotion,certain associations,appeal to specific audience
Syntax:
Look for:
How words are organized into sentences
Look for: patterns or varieties in sentence structure
Tone:
Attitude of the author
Ocassion:
An event that led the author to write
Exigence:
Topic that caused the author to write or argue
Purpose
Reason why the author wrote an essay or argument
Message:
Main idea of an argument that the author is conveying
Irony:
When an author says something in order to convey the opposite
Hyperbole:
Exaggerated statement
Anecdote:
Story that is told to join,something that you witnessed,or a story that you analyzed
Personal experience/observation:
Something that happened to you
Claim needs to be ________e
Arguable
Claim of fact:
Asserts if something is true or not
Claims of value:
Argues that something is good or bad or valuable or not valuable
Claim of policy:
Change
Personal experience:
Appeals to pathos
Testimony:
How someone feels about a personal experience of observation
Anecdote:
Stories about other people
Analogies:
Comparisons between two unrelated things
Quantative evidence:
Numbers and statistics
Thesis
States the writers position