The Rhetorical Situation
The Rhetorical Triangle
Style
Fallacies
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The goal of the speaker/writer.

What is the PURPOSE?

100

The clear, logical ideas in an argument; usually created from claims backed up with evidence like specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony

What is LOGOS?

100

A description involving one of the five senses; a description of something you can see, hear, touch, taste, or smell.

What is IMAGERY?

100

A conclusion based on the premise that if A happens, then eventually B, C,..., X, Y, Z will happen, too

What is SLIPPERY SLOPE?

100

A face or character the speaker creates to show their audience. From Greek for “mask.”

What is a PERSONA?

200

The historical, cultural, and social movements that influence a text

What is the CONTEXT?

200

An appeal to the emotions, values, desires, hopes, prejudices, or fears of the audience

What is PATHOS?

200

The dictionary definition of a word

What is the DENOTATIVE definition?

200

A conclusion based on an argument that the origins of a person, idea, institute, or theory determine its character, nature, or worth

What is the GENETIC FALLACY?

200

The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion

What is RHETORIC?

300

The method used to present the subject to the audience

What is the GENRE?

300

The speaker’s expertise, knowledge, experience, sincerity, or combination of these factors that gives the audience a reason for listening to this person on this subject

What is ETHOS?

300

When the typical English word order (subject-verb-object) is rearranged (usually object-subject-verb)

What is INVERSION?

300

An attack on the character of a person rather than his or her opinions or arguments

What is AD HOMINEM?

300

Any essay, political cartoon, photograph, advertisement, etc. that can be analyzed rhetorically

What is a TEXT?

400

The topic of the text

What is the SUBJECT?

400

These are the two parts of a counterargument

What is CONCESSION and REFUTATION?


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Putting two or more ideas next to each other to create a direct comparison

What is JUXTAPOSITION?

400

An appeal that presents what most people, or a group of people think, in order to persuade one to think the same way

What is BANDWAGON fallacy?

400

To deduce or conclude information from evidence and reasoning, rather than from explicit statements

What is to INFER?

500

The specific circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding the creation of the text

What is the OCCASION (or EXIGENCE)?

500

A method used to be persuasive

What is an APPEAL?

500

The speaker’s attitude toward the subject

What is TONE?

500

This fallacy compares minor misdeeds with major atrocities, suggesting that both are equally immoral

What is MORAL EQUIVALENCE?

500

This fallacy oversimplifies an opponent's viewpoint and then attacks that hollow argument

What is the STRAW MAN FALLACY?

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