Ethos Pathos or Logos
Provides information that explains the speakers credibility.
What is ethos?
The repetition of an initial consonant sound is known as?
What is alliteration?
An arguable statement, which may be about a fact, a value, or a policy.
What is a claim?
A figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is
What is an understatement?
Word choice
What is diction?
"That speech really made me angry"
What is pathos?
A comparison between two different things to highlight their similarities, usually to explain a complex concept by relating it to something familiar
What is analogy?
An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent’s point.
What is a concession?
A fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence.
What is a hasty generalization?
How words are organized in sentences
What is syntax?
The speaker citing professional credentials, uses and references personal experience, and maintaining a professional, trustworthy tone to build rapport.
What is ethos?
The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words
What is assonance?
The part of an argument wherein a speaker or writer anticipates and counters opposing points of view
What is refute (refutation)?
A fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options(usually two) when in fact more options are available
What is a false dilemma?
The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders.
What is jargon?
There was too much traffic for just 2 crossing guards so they added 2 more is an example of.....
What is logos?
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
What is antithisis?
This must be explored to prove you are open to other points of view but can disporve them.
What is a counterargument?
A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution.
What is appeal to authority?
A writer’s attitude toward the subject and audience that is primarily conveyed through diction, point of view, syntax, and level of formality
What is tone?
Martin Luther King was masterful at his use of this to make every person, white or black, feel something during his speeches.
What is pathos?
Extending a metaphor so that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text.
What is an allegory?
You must have a strong one of these to prove your opponent wrong.
What is a rebuttal?
An argument based on the failings of an adversary rather than on the merits of the case; a logical fallacy that involves a personal attack
What is ad-hominen?
Denunciatory or abusive language; discourse that casts blame on somebody or something
What is invective?