Homework: Students will be expected to outline chapters 1 and 2 of The Language of Composition textbo
Your outline will look similar to (does not have to be exactly like) the following example(s):
Chapter 1 – An Introduction to Rhetoric
I. Key Elements of Rhetoric (and definitions of rhetoric, audience, context, purpose, thesis, claim, assertion, subject, speaker
II. The Rhetorical Triangle (and define the various triangles, subject, persona)
III. Appeals to Ethos, Logo, and Pathos
a. Ethos (and define tone)
b. Logos (and define assumption, counterargument, concede, refute)
c. Pathos (and define notations, propagandistic, polemical)
IV. Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in Practice
V. Visual Rhetoric (and define satiric)
VI. An example of Rhetoric in Literature
VII. Arrangement
a. The Classical Model
i. Exordium
ii. Narratio
iii. Confirmatio
iv. Refutatio
v. Peroratio
b. Patterns of Development
i. Narration
ii. Description
iii. Process Analysis
iv. Exemplification (and define induction)
v. Comparison and Contrast
vi. Classification and Division
vii. Definition
viii. Cause and Effect
VIII. When Rhetoric Misses the Mark
Chapter 2 – CLOSE READING: The Art and Craft of Analysis
(Define close reading, colloquialisms)
I. Analyzing Style (and define tone, style, syntax, trope, diction, metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, scheme, parallelisms, juxtapositions, antithesis, figures of speech, periodic, cumulative)
II. Talking with the Text
a. Annotation (and define annotation, thesis statement/topic sentence, imagery, oxymoron)
b. Dialectical Journal (and define dialectical journal, zeugma)
c. Graphic Organizer (and define graphic organizer)
III. Analyzing a Visual Text
IV. From Analysis to Essay: Writing about Close Reading
a. Diction (and define archaic)
b. Syntax (and define complex sentences, declarative sentences, anaphora, hortative sentences, imperative sentences, antimetabole)
V. Glossary of Selected Tropes and Schemes J