Tracking Arguments
The three types of logical reasoning.
What is deductive, inductive, and abductive reasoning?
The three types of author's purpose.
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
The type of rhetorical appeal used to show emotion within a text.
What is pathos?
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
What is affix?
Type of reasoning that begins with a premise and uses a given fact to form a conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
Identify the author's purpose:
A letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing a strong opinion on a controversial issue and attempting to persuade others to adopt a similar position by presenting compelling evidence and arguments.
What is persuade?
The type of rhetorical appeal used to show reasoning, statistics, and logic.
What is logos?
The feeling or idea that a word invokes.
What is connotation?
This a word part that is added to the end of a word.
What is suffix?
Identify the type of logical reasoning being used:
Observation: The bakery across the street always has a line out the door.
Conclusion: The bakery sells delicious treats.
This is an example of:
What is inductive reasoning?
Identify the author's purpose:
A novel that tells a compelling story engages the reader’s emotions and imagination through vivid characters, evocative settings, and unexpected twists and turns.
What is entertain?
The type of rhetorical appeal used to show credibility.
What is ethos?
Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word testifying.
I, too, am a witness, today testifying in your name to the principles and purposes to which we, as a people, are pledged.
What is to make a statement based on personal knowledge or belief?
This is word part added to the beginning of a word.
What is prefix?
This type of logical reasoning begins with a specific pattern and moves to generalize to form a conclusion.
What is abductive reasoning?
Identify the author's purpose:
A product review that describes the features, benefits, and drawbacks of a particular item. The author uses descriptive language to give the reader a clear sense of the product and whether it might suit their needs.
What is inform?
Identify the type of rhetorical appeal used:
But tonight, we turn the page. Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis. More of our kids are graduating than ever before. More of our people are insured than ever before. And we are as free from the grip of foreign oil as we’ve been in almost 30 years.
What is logos?
Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word productive.
Our population grows. Commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors and highways. Our soil is fertile, our agriculture productive.
What is resulting in or providing a large amount or supply of something?
Identify the prefix of the word submerge used in the sentence below:
After boiling the broccoli, submerge it in ice water to stop the cooking process.
What is sub-?
Identify the type of logical reasoning used:
Premise: All plants perform photosynthesis.
Fact: A cactus is a plant.
Conclusion: A cactus performs photosynthesis.
What is deductive reasoning?
The author's purpose of the text "Dad's Jazz."
What is entertain?
Identify the rhetorical appeal used below:
My three decades of experience in public service, my tireless commitment to the people of this community, and my willingness to reach across the aisle and cooperate with the opposition make me the ideal candidate for your mayor.
What is ethos?
Use context clues to identify the meaning of the word elusive below:
After ten games this season, they still can't achieve that elusive win.
What is difficult to find, catch, or achieve?
Identify the suffix in the word scholarly below:
He was an intellectual, scholarly man.