the conclusion or assertion that a person is attempting to prove
What is a claim?
100
Speaker, Audience, Text/Subject
What is the rhetorical triangle?
100
hyperbole
What is an exaggeration or overstatement?
100
"We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air..."
What is anaphora?
100
Uses evidence that is not qualified or uses a source that is not an authority on a specific issue.
What is appeal to false authority?
200
the facts or data that are used to either support or oppose the claim
What is evidence?
200
The occasion or context in which the author writes a text. May also be the motivation for a speaker to compose a text.
What is the rhetorical situation?
200
allusion
What is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art?
200
"Peaceful Revolution"
What is oxymoron?
200
Exaggerations made from fear or guilt to force people into action. Uses tender moments excessively to distract readers from facts.
What is appeal to emotion or sentimental appeal or scare tactics?
300
Answering questions and objections raised in the minds of the audience
What is a rebuttal?
300
the three rhetorical appeals
What are Ethos (credibility), pathos (emotion), logos (reason)?
300
comparison of two pairs that have the same relationship
What is analogy?
300
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
What is chiasmus or antimetabole?
300
It assumes that something is better or correct simply because it is older, traditional, or "always has been done."
What is appeal to tradition?
400
Statements that limit the strength of the argument or statements that propose the conditions under
which the argument is true
What is a qualifier?
400
SOAPS
What is an acronym for analyzing the speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, and subject of a piece of text?
400
artfully using a single verb to refer to two different objects grammatically, or artfully using an adjective to refer to two separate nouns, even though the adjective would logically only be appropriate for one of the two
What is zeugma?
400
"cool as a cucumber"
What is simile?
400
Makes a claim that urges people to follow the mass majority.
What is bandwagon?
500
a logical connection between a claim and the reason(s) supporting it
What is a warrant?
500
Aristotle's definition of rhetoric
What is the art of persuasion?
500
one of several terms describing short, pithy sayings
What is aphorism?
500
"No kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
What is metaphor?
500
Attacks directed at the character of the person rather than at the claims he or she makes.