Rhetorical Appeals
an appeal to emotions
pathos
Let either of you breathe a word or the edge of a word, and I will come in the black of some terrible night and I will bring some pointy reckoning that will shudder you.
Ad Baculum
"Because I said so!"
“I met two rude people from New York, so people from New York must be rude.”
Hasty Genralization
ethos
Either you are pro-choice or you are anti-woman.
False Dichotomy
You can’t believe anything that politician says about the economy; look at how messy his personal life is.
Ad hominem
“I wore my lucky socks during the test and got an A. My socks must have caused my good grade.”
Faulty Causality
ethos is also called the _________ appeal
Ethical Appeal
We have always met at my house for Easter, I don't know why this year would be any different.
A: I have concerns about how this program is operating?
B: So you're trying to derail the whole program?
Strawman
Equivocation
Rhetoric seeks
If we allow the government to register handguns, next they'll ban shotguns, then they'll ban all weapons, and finally we will live in a total dictatorship.
Slippery Slope
"Why should I listen to you? You're overweight too".
Tu Quoque
“No one has proven that aliens don’t exist, so aliens must be real.”
Ad Ignorantiam
Who do we credit for the ideas of rhetoric we've learned
Aristotle
If we allow the government to register handguns, next they'll ban shotguns, then they'll ban all weapons, and finally we will live in a total dictatorship.
Slippery Slope
Helen Keller is fake. There is just no way that a disabled person could do that.
“This rule is important because it’s a rule that everyone must follow.”
Begging the Question