{"id":52,"date":"2025-12-08T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:32:09","slug":"rhetorica-critical-meter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/?page_id=52","title":{"rendered":"Rhetorica Critical Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Note:<\/strong> This is the original Critical Meter published on Rhetorica between 2002 and 2006. For now, the links go to the old Rhetorica site on Archive.org. I&#8217;ll move everything back to rhetorica.net eventually. Be aware that some links within the archive might not work.<\/h3>\n<p>Throughout The Rhetorica Network I will analyze speeches and news items using various critical techniques and terms. Please refer to this critical meter for explanations. I encourage you to put these techniques to use in your own pursuit of truth. A little digging will reveal much about how journalists and politicians shape our political culture with words. If you come across any interesting examples that I have not covered, please send<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/feedback.htm\"> feedback<\/a> with your own critiques and comments.\u00a0 Also see the<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/textbook\/index.htm\"> Rhetorica online rhetoric textbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/bias.htm\">Media and Political Bias<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/kairos.htm\">Situation and <i>Kairos<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/burke.htm\">Burke&#8217;s Pentad<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/propaganda.htm\">Propaganda<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/idea_criticism.htm\">Idea Criticism<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/argument.htm\">Analyzing Argument<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/genre.htm\">Genre<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/lexicon.htm\">Lexicon<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/tropes.htm\">Tropes and Schemes<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/speech.htm\">Speech-act Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/heresthetics.htm\">Heresthetics<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051111234539\/http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/diction.htm\">Computer-assisted text analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This is the original Critical Meter published on Rhetorica between 2002 and 2006. For now, the links go to the old Rhetorica site on Archive.org. I&#8217;ll move everything back to rhetorica.net eventually. Be aware that some links within the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/?page_id=52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetorica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}