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You see an ad that shows the destruction left by a major flood. There are images of debris, dirty water, destroyed homes. Then there is a close up of a child, who stares into the camera. What type of an appeal is this?
What is Pathos?
When you, as a reader or viewer, are asked to trust a speaker’s credibility to believe the message this speaker is giving, it is an example of...
How a rhetorician sounds to an audience: silly, arrogant, pompous, smart, serious, authoratative, friendly, etc. creates the ____.
What is Tone?
"So close and yet so far." is an example of what rhetorical device?
What is a Paradox?
A comparison between two things is called...
There's a bathtub full of water and you need to empty it- you have a spoon, a cup, and a bucket. How do you do it?
What is Pull the Plug?
Argument from reason; it appeals to an audience’s intellectual side. As audiences we want to know the “facts of the matter,” and this type of appeal helps present these—statistics, data, and logical statements.
What is Logos?
Facts, numbers, charts, graphs, etc. are examples of what rhetorical device?
What are Statistics?
The five states that make up the name for "Winco" are?
What are Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon.
Another word for the presentation is...
What is Delivery?
Aristotle articulated three “artistic appeals” that a rhetor could draw on to make a case—what are they?
What are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos?
Exigence is the circumstance or condition that invites a response; rhetorical discourse is usually --------------- some kind of problem.
What is Responding to?
You can hold this in your left hand but not in your right?
What is your right elbow?
The counterargument that successfully shows an argument to be false is called?
What is a Refutation?
Also called hyperbole: the tactic of overstating a topic to emphasize a point, appeal to emotion, or get attention is an example of an...
What is an Exaggeration?
When Mitt Romney claims that his experience in managing big business will make him the better president, one who will be able to get America back on track, he is using what type of an appeal?
What is Ethos?
This type of appeal comes in many forms: an anecdote or narrative, an image such as a photograph, or even humor.
What is Pathos?
A false or invalid argument is called a...
What is a Fallacy?
A statement in which there is an incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident meaning of words or actions is called...
What is Irony?
The point at which people in general disagreement can agree is called...
What is Common Ground?
This is commonly called the "tongue bone", it aids in swallowing...
What is the hyoid bone?
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
What is a Candle?
Repetition of a word/phrase or grammatical structure for effect is called...
What is Parallelism?
Two types of bone in the human body...
What are Spongy and Compact?
You’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, this is your new place...
What is Second Place?