Rhetorical Terms
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100
The three ways of persuading an audience.
What are the rhetorical appeals?
100
BONUS: The motto of Oak Ridge high school. (DOUBLE POINTS)
One school. One mission. Pioneering our way to an 'A'.
100
A group of individuals who must discuss and decide a verdict in a case.
What is a jury?
100
The attorney who is tasked with getting the harshest punishment available.
What is the prosecution?
100
The days left in the school year (including today).
What is 28?
200
An appeal to emotions.
What is pathos?
200
Someone or something that is less important and obeys everyone else.
What is subservient?
200
To carefully discuss and consider an issue.
What is "deliberate"?
200
The decision given by the jury.
What is a verdict?
200
The title and name of our principal.
What is Dr. Leigh Ann Bradshaw?
300
An appeal to an audience's logic.
What is logos?
300
To take pleasure in another's suffering.
What is sadism?
300
When charges against a person are removed.
What is acquittal?
300
The person responsible for making sure the jury runs well and that people stay on task.
What is the foreman?
300
The words behind the acronym FSA.
What is Florida Standards Assessment?
400
An appeal from a speaker's character or credibility.
What is ethos?
400
When something appears true only because it is not more closely examined.
What is superficial?
400
The defendant's explanation of where they were when the crime they were charged for occurred.
What is an alibi?
400
The evidence that is given under oath by a witness or a defendant.
What is testimony?
400
The number of games the Cavs have won compared to the Celtics in the current first playoff round.
What is 3-0?
500
The rhetorical appeal by which a salesman may vividly describe the horrors of a robbery or break-in in order to sell a home security system.
What is pathos?
500
A weapon that is illegal in many countries and automatically flips up a blade through the use of a spring.
What is a switchblade knife?
500
The responsibility of the prosecution to prove the defendant is guilty.
What is burden of proof?
500
A level of certainty that the jurors must have about the defendant's guilt BEYOND they can vote guilty.
What is reasonable doubt?
500
The motto of our classroom.
What is "Today, we will work hard at work worth doing."
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