Claims
Language & Style
Fallacies
Rhetoric/Argument
100
A position taken by a person making an argument
What is claim
100
A question asked to encourage an audience to reflect on an issue, but not elicit a direct response.
What is Rhetorical Question
100
Mom: McKenzie, why did you fail your Chemistry test? McKenzie: Did you notice the awful storm outside?
What is Red Herring
100
credibility of the author
What is ethos
200
Your claim should not include this pronoun
What is "I"
200

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning

Connotation
200
"My opponent suggests that lowering taxes will be a good idea -- this is coming from a man who eats 1 full gallon of ice cream each night!
What is ad hominem
200
invoking emotion within an audience
What is pathos
300
personal experiences, research, facts, statistics, textual evidence from articles
What is evidence for claims
300
giving human like qualities to in inanimate object
What is personification
300
Explain the logical flaw:  I prayed before I took my Geometry test and I got an A! Praying before tests helps me get A's.

What is "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X."

300
statistical data
What is logos
400
Your position and the reasons for your belief in one full sentence
What is your thesis statement?
400
using similar grammatical structures to emphasize related ideas
What is parallel structure
400

repeating the claim and never providing support for the premises, or, in other words, repeating the same argument over and over again

What is Begging the Question/Circular argument
400
A reasoned logical way of demonstrating that the writers position belief or conclusion is valid.
What is argument
500
Explaining how your evidence supports your claim
What is interpretation?
500
reference to a well known literary work, famous person, place or thing
What is an Allusion
500
In surveying the students in Mr. Kern's Conceptual Physics class - they all like Marvel Comics. So all students at WHS like Marvel Comics.
What is Hasty Generalization
500
Type of essay that makes claims based on factual evidence, makes a counterclaim, defeats opposing ideas, convinces an audience to believe a claim.
What is argumentative.
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