Appeal to me!
Purpose
Effect
Name that technique I
Name that Technique II
100

Nearly 40% of long-term smokers will develop terminal cancer.

What is logos?

100

To engage the audience's feelings and reactions

What is an appeal to emotion?

100

To want to maintain the feelings they have now

What is an appeal to positive emotions?

100

"The worst comes for us, for our children, for our futures."

- Churchill

What is tricolon?

100

"9 out of 10 dentists recommend Colgate to fight cavities"

What is an appeal to authority?

200

As your teacher, you can totally trust me!

What is ethos?

200

To connect to a respected source outside of the author or speaker

What is an appeal to authority?


200

To eliminate the feelings they have now

What is an appeal to negative emotions?

200

Examples of language such as "illegal alien"; "destitute mothers"; "unfortunate refugees"


What are loaded words?

200
"All the top athletes drink Gatorade before a big game"

Bandwagon approach

300

"Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?"

What is pathos?

300

To present a common and comprehensible instance where something is true

What is exemplification?

300

To highlight for emphasis

What is repetition or exemplification?

300

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country?" - JFK

What is antithesis?

300

Picture of three happy people using product

What is a plain folks appeal?

400

We are all in this together; we stand united.

- Woodrow Wilson

What is ethos?

400

To show a connection between the costs and the personal benefits of a claim

What is an incentive?

400

To think, act, or do

What is an appeal to action?

400

"I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn't have a choice about getting leukemia."

- Zoe Leonard

What is hyperbole?

400

"The BEST coffee for the BEST you"

- Starbucks slogan

What is loaded language/words?

500

"what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well"

What is logos?

500

To state what the author or speaker wants the audience to do

What is an appeal to action?

500

To accept the speaker as an expert

What is an appeal to ethos?

500

"Never give up.  Never give in.  Never."

- Serena Williams

What is anaphora?

500

"As an expert mechanic, I recommend Valvoline."

What is Expert Opinion?

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