Rhetorical Strategies
Rhetorical continued
Logical Fallacies
Analyzing passages
Potpourri
100
Persuasive because it’s not really a question or because you already know the answer, so you answer it yourself.
What is Rhetorical question
100
A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true
What is Paradox
100
offering only two choices, one of which is unacceptable
What is False Dilemma
100
Authors claim/thesis in the Liu method
What is Foundation
100
the perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development.
What is tone
200
Using emotion to appeal to an audience
What is Pathos
200
A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined
What is Oxymoron
200
an exaggerated sense of urgency or crisis.
What is Alarmism
200
organization and structure/arrangement
What is "Architecture"
200
The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience
What is mood
300
Using ethics to appeal to an audience
What is ethos
300
Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
What is Parallelism
300
[Latin: does not follow]: an illogical conclusion
What is Non-Sequitur
300
What makes the literature sing? What is melodic? Rhetorical devices/repetition, etc. (Liu)
What is Music
300
This is the weight of the Free-response section
What is 55%
400
Using Logic to appeal to an audience
What is logos
400
Use of a series of conjunctions
What is polysyndeton
400
a runaway chain of cause-and-effect
What is Slippery Slope
400
What does CEAO stand for
What is Claim Evidence Assumptions Relation to other sources
400
The time for all 3 free responses
What is 135 minutes (45 per question)
500
an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases [criss-cross ideas]
What is Chiasmus
500
The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses
What is Anaphora
500
[Latin: at the man] attacking the author of the argument rather than the argument itself
What is ad hominem
500
This free response is where the CEAO method is used
What is Synthesis
500
This many sources must be used in the synthesis essay.
What is 4
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