Persuasive Techniques
Rhetorical Strategies
Literary terms
Historical Background and Authors
Know Your Literature and Literary Devices!
100
This technique persuades buyers to act, "Because everyone else is doing it!"
What is bandwagon?
100
Appeals that pertain to Reason/Text
What is Logos?
100
This is a type of literature that is an account of one's own life.
What is an Autobiography?
100
This is the belief of the period that mankind can arrive at truth through reason.
What is Rationalism?
100
This work describes the steps Benjamin Franklin took to achieve moral perfection.
What is The Autobiography?
200
Using tests, statistics, or other “scientific” information to prove that one product is better.
What is Facts and Figures?
200
Appeals that relate to the credibility of the author/writer
What is Ethos?
200
This literary device is a cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
What is an Aphorism?
200
This orator delivered a speech that concluded with "...Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
200
This was one of the most popular forms of writing during the Revolutionary period.
What are Pamphlets?
300
Suggesting that a product will prevent or protect you from something unpleasant or undesirable.
What is Hidden Fears?
300
This rhetorical appeal is directed toward the emotions/values/beliefs of the reader/listener
What is pathos?
300
Such as in The Declaration of Independence, this is the repetition of phrases that have similar grammatical structures.
What is Parallelism?
300
This person is credited with being the author of "The Declaration of Independence."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..." is an example of what literary device?
What is an aphorism?
400
Showing that a product is great for people “just like you” or for “ordinary” situations
What is Plain Folks Appeal?
400
This rhetorical appeal is based on appealing to the reader's values and beliefs.
What is Pathos?
400
This terms refers to making educated guesses based on clues in the text and on your own knowledge and experience.
What is Inference?
400
This author wrote a series of important pamphlets entitled "The American Crisis."
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
This literary device applies to the quote, "Each morning we sing, each morning we dance, and each morning we play."
What is Parallelism?
500
This persuasive technique suggests a positive meaning without actually making any guarantee.
What are Weasel Words?
500
This rhetorical appeal is based on the qualifications of the author and his/her sources of information.
What is Ethos?
500
This device is a question that is asked for effect that does not actually require an answer.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
500
This is the belief that God created the natural world and its laws, but that the universe operated without divine intervention.
What is Deism?
500
The literary device that applies to what TYPE of writing the following is most likely an example of "Hereby, too, I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men, to be talking of themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing, since this may be read or not as any one pleases."
What is Autobiography?
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