Rhetorical Situation
Patterns and Development
Logical Fallacies
Syntax and Tropes
Rhetoric
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The annogram, "SOAPS," stands for this.

What is Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject. 

200

The telling of a story or recounting a series of events is known by this term. 

What is narration. 

200

This fallacy occurs when someone, usually a celebrity, who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as credible

What is Appeal to False Authority

200

This is a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.

What is a clause

200

These make up the three sides to the rhetorical triangle

What are Speaker, Audience, and Subject

400

The denial of the validity of an opposing argument and often follows a concession that acknowledges an opposing argument is known as this. 

What is refutation. 

400

A brief story used to illustrate a point or claim is known as this.

What is an anecdote. 

400

This fallacy occurs when the writer or speaker repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence.

What is Circular Reasoning

400

This device uses attribution of a lifelike (human or animal) quality to an inanimate object or idea.

What is Personification

400

This is the appeal to demonstrate that the author is credible and trustworthy on the given topic

What is Ethos

600

The difference between an open and a closed thesis is this. 

What is an open thesis does not list all of the points the writer intends to cover where as a closed thesis is a statement of the main idea of the argument that previews the major points

600

The purpose of "cause and effect" is this

What is to analyze the causes that lead to a certain effect, or conversely, the effects that result from a cause is a powerful foundation for argument.

600

This fallacy's tagline is, “everybody’s doing it, so it must be a good thing to do.”

What is Ad Populum

600

This is the main difference between a complex sentence and a simple sentence.

What is that complex sentences include one independent clause and at least one dependent clause while simple sentences include a single independent clause with a single thought.

600

This is greek for “embodied thought”

What is Logos

800

First hand evidence is mainly based on the knowledge from this identity. 

What is the writer

800

The difference between "Exemplification" and "Definition" is this.

What is that exemplification focuses more on specific examples where as definition focuses more on a singular phrase to explain the word/words at hand. 

800

This fallacy occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea.

What is Straw Man

800

This is the main difference between independent and dependent clauses.

What is that they differ as independent clauses can stand alone as sentences while dependent clauses don’t express complete thoughts.  

800

This is greek for “suffering” or “experience” 

What is Pathos

1000

A chain of reasoning moving from general, universal principles to specific instances is known as this. 

What is "syllogism"

1000

The specific type of language and appeals that focus on emotions while trying to convince someone, is known as this. 

What is Persuasion

1000

This fallacy, in Latin means, for “after which therefore because of which,” meaning that it is incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier.

What is Post hoc ergo propter hoc

1000

These are the five different types of irony

What are Verbal Irony, Structural Irony, Cosmic Irony, Dramatic Irony, Tragic Irony

1000

These make up the five canons of rhetoric

What are Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, Delivery

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