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Qualities of a Critic

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-Discerning

-Imaginative

-Skeptical

-Not timid

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5 Step Process of Criticism

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1. Isolate- narrow down speech

2. Describe- re-state what is said

3. Classify- Classify an aspect as some concept

4. Interpret- Explain significance

5. Evaluate- Needs to happen before you finish

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Exigence

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What is calling the speaker to speah

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Performative

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Has meaning beyond context. Everything in a speech has meaning, even location.

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Situation Variables

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Rhetor, setting, time, location, media, audience, topic

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Functions of Speech Act/Situations

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1. Index power

2. Index ego needs

3. Index social obstacles

4. Reveal speaker priorities

5. Reveal audience priorities

6. Reveal speaker/audience relationship

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Serial Examples

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Adds totality to speaker's remarks by presenting numerous instances of the same phenomenon

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Extended Examples

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Adds vivacity to speaker's remarks by presenting a detailed picture of a single event or concept.

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Quantification

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Adds a feeling of substantiveness to a speaker's remarks by concrete enumerations.

ex. 80%

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Isolated Comparisons

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Adds realism to speaker's remarks by drawing analogically on a listener's past experiences.

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Extended Comparison

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Adds psychological reference points to a rhetor's remarks by successively structuring his or her perceptions along familiar lines

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Testimony

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Adds to the inclusiveness of the rhetor's remarks by quoting appreciatively from known or respected sources

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Definition

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Adds to the rhetor's remarksby depicting opposed elements

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Contrast

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Adds a dramatic quality by depicting opposed elements

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Toulmin's Model

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Major Claims- broad statements frequently repeated

Major Data- Supporting structures

Warrants- hypothetical statements that can act as a bridge and authorize the sort of step to which our particular argument commits us

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Framing

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Airlines frame your expectations- time buffers in case of weather or complications

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Implications of Genre for Culture

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Genres are ever changing. Genre tells us about culture bc they are culturally constructed

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Anaphora

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Repeating a word of phrase at the beginning of successive clauses (we shall not, we shall not, we shall not)

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Antithesis

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Juxtaposing contrasting ideas in balanced phrases (naked I came out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return to thither)

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Hyperbole

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Extravagant statement used as a figure of speech (like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for an echo)

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Metonymy

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Using the name of one thing for the name of something else(a little big and pretty ugly)

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Synecdoche

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ID'ing something by naming a part of it (wherever wood (a ship) can swim)

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Irony

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Statement whose "real" meaning is opposite of what is literally said

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Rhetorical Q

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Declarative statements taking an interrogative form

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Parallelism

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Groupings of similarly phrased ideas presented in rapid discussion

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Sentence Structure

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Primary- Core of the sentence. basic meaning w/o fluff

Secondary- All other words in the sentence. Adds detail.

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Running Style

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Not much secondary. Direct and authoritative.

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Periodic Style

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Creating intricate detail. Builds up to a delayed response. Secondary structure to gain and maintain attention, elaborate arguments, walk audience through process

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Antithesis

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Balance and inversion. "She stood up so we could sit"

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Metaphors

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-Selectively highlight ideas

-Mask ideas- implied meaning is less noticeable

-Generative-helps you see things in a new light

-Have entailments- mean certain things but imply other things too

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Lexicon

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Words that are unique to a group or individual and have rhetorical power

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Ultimate Terms

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Words that have history to them. Association or symbolism. Abstract- moving beyond it's definition. Special evocative meaning.

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God Terms

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Associated w/ ideals of a culture

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Devil Terms

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Evils of a society

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Code Words

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Unique to group or individual. Contexts of words w/ distinct meaning to a group. Designate one's connection to a group.