Argument Terms
Information that has words that appeal to your emotions.
What is pathos?
What helps organize your writing to smoothly connect one idea to another.
What are transitions?
Grab the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
The first sentence in your BODY PARAGRAPH, and in an argument essay, one of the reasons that supports your argument.
What is a topic sentence?
How many students in Period 5 have names that begin with the letter O?
What is 2?
An appeal where the supporting evidence is facts and statistics.
What is logos?
How should any essay open?
What is the hook?
A question, statement, quote, statistic or personal anecdote.
What is a HOOK?
Mr. Sedler's dog's name.
What is Timmy?
Mr. Sedler's first name.
What is Jeff?
An appeal where the supporting evidence is predicated upon the speaker's credibility or ethics.
What is an Ethos?
The final sentences of the conclusion of an argument essay should include this to motivate your audience to behave or think differently after reading.
What is a Call to Action?
The ancient Greek who identified rhetorical appeals thousands of years ago.
Who is Aristotle?
The number of kids Mr. Sedler has.
What is 2?
Room number we are in.
What is E304?
The paragraph where the writer concedes to the opposing argument.
What is the Counterclaim?
Every argument essay needs this to convey your position on the argument. It's what you're trying to prove.
What is the claim or thesis?
The verb that means to admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it. It's part your counterclaim.
What is concede?
Sports Mr. Sedler played in High School.
What is Basketball or Track?
The author of Lord of the Flies.
Who is William Golding?
Evidence that explains the reason why the opposing is incorrect.
What is refutation or rebuttal?
The term used to classify logos, ethos, and pathos.
What are rhetorical appeals?
The verb that means to prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove.
What is to refute?
It must be done to avoid plagiarism and give credit to sources.
What is cite your sources?
How many students' last names begin with the letter V?
What is 1?