Description
Units
- Rhetorical Situation— speaker/author, audience, purpose, context, exigence; identifying ethos/pathos/logos in situ- 30 Qs.
- Claims & Evidence — debatable claims, evidence types (quantitative, qualitative, testimony, anecdote), credibility, relevance, sufficiency, counterarguments & rebuttals- 30 Qs.
- Reasoning & Organization — inductive/deductive logic, causation vs. correlation, common fallacies, coherence and transitions, structures (problem–solution, cause–effect, compare–contrast, chronological)- 30 Qs.
- Style & Rhetorical Choices — tone, diction, syntax; figurative devices (metaphor, simile, personification), parallelism, anaphora/epistrophe, satire, rhetorical questions, appeals- 30 Qs.
- Mixed Review & Practice — integrated application of the above (rhetorical triangle, modes, fallacies, exigence, quantitative vs. qualitative evidence) for exam-style reinforcement- 30 Qs.
