Rhetoric

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134

What is the main claim, the main reason, and the main warrant?

138

 Does the author use specific or iterative examples or both?  

139

 What kinds of examples does the author use? How does he or she establish typicality for them? 

141-3

 Does he or she make any universal (all) claims? 

145

 Find one instance where the author uses an explicit definition.  Quote or paraphrase.  Which of the types of arguments that Rhetoric claims require explicit definitions is he or she making?

147

 Is the author’s definition of nature dispersed?  If so, why did he or she write it that way?

148-152

 Which types of definitions does the author use?  Why?

153-157

 Does the author use support by comparison.  What points of similarity and difference does he or she identify?

63

 How does the author use language to affect our emotions? Does the word choice reveal any assumptions about the audience?

64

 Find one example the author has chosen to appeal to our emotions.  Does the example reveal anything about the assumptions about the audience? 

48-52

 How does the author attempt to establish intrinsic ethos?

55

 To what extent does the author succeed in getting you to identify with him or her? 

56-60

 List two strategies the author uses to establish his or her reasonableness.