Back in the Colony
This group focused on themes of Religion and morality
Who are the Puritan's
This logical fallacy misrepresents someone’s argument to make it easier to attack.
What is the strawman fallacy?
This rhetorical device appeals to logic.
What is logos?
This was one of the first American poets and the first female poet published in Puritan Era America.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
This refers to the idea that once we are born it is already determined if we go to heaven or hell.
What is predestination?
This group wrote mostly journals and captain's logs.
Who are the settlers?
This logical fallacy attacks the person making the argument rather than the claim that is made.
What is Ad Hominem?
This rhetorical appeal deals with emotion.
What is Pathos?
This writer wrote about experiences with Native Americans and eventually wrote the story of Pocahontas. Also, there is a restaurant that sells subs of the same name located in Tallahassee.
Who is John Smith?
This story used pathos to try and persuade Puritans to stay pure.
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
This group sparked new ideas about individuality and broke away from the church slightly.
Who were the Revolutionary writers?
"Why would you listen to Skip's opinions on basketball? He averaged 2.3 points per game in high school." is an example of this logical fallacy.
This rhetorical appeal deals with credibility.
What is ethos?
This writer used Logos in his key work titled "Common Sense".
Who is Thomas Paine?
This group was inspired by the revolutionary era writers.
Who were the Romantic Era Writers.
"You want to limit how many wings I can eat at the buffet? You may as well just let me starve." is an example of this logical fallacy.
What is Strawman?
A shoe advertisement showing Michael Jordan running, jumping, and playing basketball appeals to which rhetorical device?
What is Ethos?
This author focused on self improvement and wrote Poor Richard's Almanac.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This movement was a response to the Revolutionary Writers, attempting to get people to return to Puritan ideals.
What is the Great Awakening?
This is the main purpose of using logical fallacies.
What is to distract the audience and move their attention away from they key issue?
"If we do not clean up the trash around the school it will look messy. If it looks messy, baseball students will leave. If baseball students leave, the baseball team will struggle." Appeals to this rhetorical device.
What is logos?
This author wrote "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God.", focused on puritan teaching, and used Pathos to sway his audience.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?