Exam 2 Notes Rhetoric and Arguments Types of Rhetoric 1 Forensic a Deals with the past b Attempts to persuade an audience that something did or did not happen c Ex Did Hillary actually delete her emails 2 Deliberative a Deals with the future b Attempts to persuade an audience to do something c Ex Vote for a specific president 3 Epideictic a Deals with the present b Attempts to persuade an audience that something in the present is good or bad c Ex More to do with personal opinions Donald trump being president is bad health care initiative being productive or not Types of Arguments Argument by 1 Example a I have a cat and its cute so all cats must be cute Vapes explode therefore vapes are bad b Simple comparison 2 Analogy a The presidential campaign is a cluster fuck Life is like a box of chocolates b Analogy linking people s understanding of cluster fuck with their understanding of the election Relying on cultural understandings of something to compare with something new Frame new information and terms that the audience is not familiar with well known info make it easy to understand 3 Definition a Donald Trump sexually assaulted women because what he said was the exact definition of sexual assault Or This doesn t constituent police brutality by definition 4 Relationship a People who prepare more for speeches make better grades Relationship between studying and good grades b UNT sucks therefor my professor who teaches at UNT sucks Artistic Proofs Ethos o Establishes credibility o Ex Introducing oneself with credentials and achievements o Establish immediacy knowledge and experience within the situation Pathos o Capitalizes on an audience s feelings o Ex Sad animals in adoption shelter commercials sad music Logos o Appeals to logic and objective reasoning o Ex Buy my project because it s the same as that product but it costs less The Toulmin Model Evidence Warrant Backing Claim Rebutal Qualifier