Logic Fallacy
Ethos, Logos, Pathos
Rhetorical Analysis
Thesis Statements
Claims
100

Attempt to persuade by stating that everyone else is "doing it"

What is Bandwagon?

100

Establishes credibility for the speaker/writer.

What is ethos?

100
Uses contextual and textual criteria to evaluate a message.

What is Rhetorical Analysis?

100
It is the most important sentence in the essay.  It explains the focus of the paper.

What is the thesis?

100

Guns should not be permitted on college campuses due to the increased likelihood of violence and criminal activity.

The italicized portion is the 

What is premise of the claim? 

200

Attempt to persuade using evidence that is not directly related to the topic.

What is Non Sequitur?

200

Addresses the feelings and emotions of the audience/reader.

What is pathos?
200

Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in practice...

“Tonight, I want to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They’re the women whose names we’ll never know. They are domestic workers and farm workers. They are working in factories and they work in restaurants and they’re in academia and engineering and medicine and science. They’re part of the world of tech and politics and business. They’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the military.”


Read more at https://www.business2community.com/communications/ethos-pathos-logos-oprahs-metoo-speech-01988878

What is ethos?

200

What is missing?


It is important get good grades because an education is important.  

What is something to prove? 

200

Claim or Not?

Global climate change has been debated for many years.

What is not? 

300

"If we legalize marijuana, next thing you know we're legalizing crack!" 

This is an example of 

What is Slippery Slope?

300

Meets the logical needs of the message.

What is logos?

300

Ethos. Logos, Pathos in practice...

“Each of us in this room are celebrated because of the stories that we tell, and this year, we became the story .”
Read more at https://www.business2community.com/communications/ethos-pathos-logos-oprahs-metoo-speech-01988878

What is pathos?

300

Effective or ineffective?


The school system should ban cell phones use in the classroom.

What is ineffective?
300

What is the suggested premise of the claim?

In order to both educate teens about life as a parent and to help prevent teenage pregnancy, high school students should be required to complete parenting classes.



What is pregnancy prevention?

400

Name this Logic Fallacy...

Hitler was a vegetarian. Therefore, I don't trust any vegetarians.

What is Hasty Generalization?

400

Is created by providing good research that is quoted from a reliable source.

What is ethos? 

400

Telephones have changed the world several times over.  From "the invention of the phone, party lines, private lines multi-phone families, car phones, cell phones, and satellite phones, communication has continued to change and progress" (King 2).  

What is needed to establish logos?

What is a discussion that states how the changes in the phone have changed the world?

400

Which of the following is not technically part of the thesis statement?

The focus, What to prove, the main points

What are the main points?

400

Due to increasing over-dependence on technology, many people struggle to think for themselves.

Valid or fallacy?

What is fallacy?

500

Name that Logic Fallacy...


Paranormal activity is real because I have experienced what can only be described as paranormal activity.

What is Begging the Question?

500

Is accomplished by using quality evidence that is thornily explained and shows how it proves the thesis.

What is logos.

500

Allie gave a speech about the rights of women at a rally to raise money for a school's gymnasium.  This speech is inappropriate for the __________.

What is the rhetorical situation.  

500

Effective or ineffective?


Due to the disruption and decline of student achievement, schools should ban cell phones in the classroom to increase achievement.

What is effective?

500

Logical or fallacy?

Though many elementary schools no longer teach cursive handwriting, it is still an essential form of communication that should be taught in schools.


What is logical?

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