Rhetorical Appeals
Rhetorical Situation
Rhetorical Fallacies and Propaganda
Mature Reasoning
Animal Farm
100
These are the names of the three rhetorical appeals.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
100
The Rhetorical situation has many parts. Name three of them.
What are (any three from this list): Subject/topic, Speaker, Audience, Exigence, Purpose, Message/Claim/Thesis, Occasion, and Genre.
100
Propaganda relies mostly on this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
100
Mature reasoning differs from what?
What is debate?
100
This is the name of the pig who has a dream and starts the idea of the animal revolution in the beginning of the book.
Who is Old Major?
200
“Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short” is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
200
This part of the rhetorical situation calls for the use of a "To Be" verb, such as To Inform or To Persuade.
What is purpose.
200
This rhetorical fallacy is represented in the propaganda poster by my desk.
What is Bandwagon?
200
Argument as mature reasoning means defending not the first position you might take on an issue but the _______ position, determined through open-minded inquiry.
What is best?
200
This animal used rhetoric to convince the other animals to follow Napoleon.
Who is Squealer?
300
“This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep” is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
300
This is the part of the rhetorical situation where an event causes the writer or speaker to write or speak in the first place.
What is the exigence?
300
A Rhetorical fallacy does this to an argument.
What is weakens?
300
In mature reasoning, "mature" means worked out fully by the _________.
What is mind?
300
This is one theme of Animal Farm.
What is (any idea relating to power, corruption, oppression, the outcomes of leadership, responsibilities of citizens, etc.)
400
“If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right” is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is ethos?
400
Identify the audience and speaker of this quote from a rhetorical situation: "Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night. But I will come to the dream later. I have something else to say first. I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired."
What is audience is the animals on the farm, speaker is Old Major.
400
Sometimes propaganda is used to develop excessive devotion to a leader in an effort for that leader to exert power. This is called...
What is Cult of Personality?
400
An argument that is also mature reasoning means that it is supported by adequate __________.
What is evidence?
400
The exigence of Animal Farm was this event.
What is the Russian Revolution?
500
This philosopher articulated three “artistic appeals” that a rhetor could draw on to make a case.
Who is Aristotle?
500
"Power corrupts people" is an example of this element of Animal Farm's rhetorical situation.
What is message or claim.
500
This is an example of what fallacy: "No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies."
What is Dogmatism?
500
One criteria of mature reasoning is that mature reasoners are self-__________ and open to constructive ___________ from others.
What is critical and criticism?
500
Animal Farm is considered a Fairy Tale, novella, fable, and ___________ (A story with a surface meaning and a figurative meaning based on a collection of symbols).
What is Allegory?
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