Rhetorical Appeal
What rhetorical appeal should be used when presenting factual evidence?
What is "logos"?
What is tone?
What is writer's attitude?
What is the correct makeup of an active sentence, using "object, subject, and verb"?
What is subject, verb, and object?
What is a fallacy?
What is "a failure in reasoning that renders an argument invalid"?
What is the proper format of writing an argumentative essay?
What is "intro, body, rebuttal, conclusion."?
What is the word with the root "ethos" that is a branch of philosophy?
What is ethics?
What is the difference between mood and tone?
What is the atmosphere or emotions readers feel and writer's attitude?
What preposition word do most passive voice sentences have?
What is "by"?
What is the "Ad Hominem" Fallacy?
What is using "character, morals, intelligence, reputation, or credentials" to emotionally attack someone?
Answers referring to using feelings or prejudices area also acceptable.
Where should the claim be in an argumentative essay?
What is the thesis?
What is the meaning of the root "pathos"?
What is "suffering, feelings or emotions"?
Name at least three ways an author can convey tone.
What is "syntax, diction, imagery, descriptive language, etc"?
Any other acceptable responses are correct.
Change the sentence from passive voice to active voice.
"Russel's precious handball was brutally stolen by a mysterious figure shrouded in black clothing."
What is "The mysterious figure shrouded in black clothing brutally stole Russel's precious handball"?
Here's a conversation between Johnny and Mark
Johnny: "I don't like Lucas, or hate Lucas."
Mark: "Nonsense. You either like Lucas or hate Lucas."
What type of fallacy is this?
What is "The False Dilemma" fallacy or the "The Black and White" fallacy?
Reasoning: Mark reduced the argument down to two options despite the many options Lucas has to choose from
How can you inspire the audience to take action?
What is using the terms "we, us, together"?
Look at this advertisement.
"You wouldn't let your child smoke. Like smoking, eating meat increases the risk of heart disease and cancer. Go Vegan."
Describe the connection of rhetorical appeal in this advertisement.
What is "pathos and logos"?
Reasoning: The statement "You wouldn't let your child smoke" appeals to parents' emotions and their responsibility as a parent. The latter uses facts to support their claim.
What is a two word phrase that nearly means the same as tone?
What is "writer's voice"?
What is the difference between a direct object and an indirect object?
What is a direct object that receives the verb, and the indirect object that tells "whom or for whom something is done"?
"Many teenagers drink alcohol, so drinking alcohol underage must be morally right and legal."
What type of fallacy is shown above?
What is "The Bandwagon" fallacy?
How can you anticipate the audience's knowledge level and concerns about the claim?
What is "deviating the audience with the counterclaim from the original claim"?
Thanksgiving Trivia (or the TT)
Which Indian tribe helped the Pilgrims and were invited to their Thanksgiving celebration?
What is the Wampanoag?
What kind of tone does Edgar Allan Poe use in "The Cask of Amontillado"?
Any acceptable response is correct, as long the answer goes along with a tone of "unsettling", "ironic", and "ominous".
Name at least seven of the "to be" forms that indicate a passive sentence.
What is "is, are, am, was, were, be, being, and been"?
Give an example of the "The Red Herring" fallacy?
Any acceptable response is correct, but it must include an irrelevant argument that distracts you from the main topic.
What are all the elements discussed in our class's "Mastery Outcomes Rubric"?
What are "claim, development, audience, cohesion, convention"?