Rhetorical Strategies
Use of sentence structure to enhance the writing.
What is Syntax?
Appealing to the emotion of the audience.
What is pathos?
This argumentative technique is directed against a person rather than their position.
What is Ad Hominem?
This part of a nonfiction essay is included to present an argument or idea at the beginning of the piece.
This strategy uses context clues to remove obviously incorrect answers.
What is Process of Elimination?
These three strategies are together called the Rhetorical Appeals.
What is Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
This term refers to a question posed more to make a point than elicit an answer.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
If students are required to wear uniforms to school, they’ll do less shopping at local clothing stores. With less business, the stores will close, which
will hurt our local economy.
What is slippery slope fallacy?
The “meat” of the essay that contains the evidence and reasoning
What is a body paragraph?
Method is used to you find words in a question that help you understand it.
What is keywords?
This rhetorical strategy makes an indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, etc...
What is Allusion?
This persuasive technique uses phrases thought of as boring, unimaginative, and overused.
What is a Cliché?
"You are either with us, or against us."
What is false dichotomy?
A name and a number that follows a quote in the body of an essay.
What is an in-text citation?
The number of questions on the AP Lang Multiple Choice Test.
What is 45?
A dramatic exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole?
The effect of underlining or bolding a word.
What is Emphasis?
Wizard of Oz, lacks a brain.
What is Straw Man?
Provides your essay with a sense of ‘style’ and can help you achieve the sophistication point.
What is Voice?
Doing this on a question you are stuck on will save you time.
What is skip and come back?
Specialized terms in order to persuade an audience they are an expert.
What is Jargon?
This broad rhetorical device encompasses techniques such as anaphora, alliteration,
epistrope, and anadiplosis.
What is Repetition?
When someone assumes that just because two events happen together, one must have caused the other.
What is post hoc fallacy?
The three points of the Rhetorical Triangle.
What are Author, Audience and Message?
The three different types of multiple choice questions.
What is recall, application, and analysis?