This strategy compares two things, often point by point, to show similarity.
What is an analogy?
100
This mode is used to tell a story.
What is narration?
100
When a writer uses humor, he/she is employing this appeal.
What is pathos?
100
What is this an example of:
Felix is like a patient lion.
What is simile?
100
This is another name for an argument about the past.
What is forensic?
200
This strategy uses overstatement for effect.
What is hyperbole?
200
This mode juxtaposes two or more ideas/events/objects in hopes that by seeing one through the lens of the other, each may be explained and clarified, or alternatively one may prove better than the rest.
What is compare/contrast?
200
_______ rely on reason and common sense while _________ rely on hard evidence
What is artistic and inartistic?
200
What is this an example of?
What is a poor English teacher to do when her students hate her?
What is a rhetorical question?
200
This is a dishonest and manipulative form of persuasion.
What is propaganda?
300
What strategy is being used in the opening to this Dickens' novel?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...."
What is antithesis?
300
A "how to change a tire" article is an example of this mode.
What is process analysis?
300
This type of logos is designed to verify the popularity of an idea or proposal in a democracy.
What is a survey, poll or survey/poll?
300
What is this an example of?
He cried. He cried himself to sleep. He cried himself awake. He cried when Florence left him and his crying never stopped.
What is amplification?
300
This is made up of an issue, its context, the audience and the writer.
What is a rhetorical situation?
400
This strategy requires a quiet, muted message to make its point effectively.
What is understatement?
400
What is the dominant mode? A paper about a solar car describes how it came to be built by an inventor and how he first became interested in solar cars; the car's existence leads people to take energy efficiency and environmental concerns more seriously and even lead to mass-produced solar cars.
What is cause and effect?
400
In this type of logical argument, a speaker states a claim and states the reason for that claim in the same statement.
What is an enthymeme?
400
What is the following an example of?
"The teacher said that he was a poor student because he waited to study for the exam, completed his lab problems carelessly, and lacked motivation.
What is parallel structure?
400
This is a way to categorize arguments by considering the kinds of issues they address.
What is stasis or stasis theory?
500
This strategy is a shorthand substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name like "His Airness" for Michael Jordan.
What is antonomasia?
500
What is the dominant mode? An article on certain students and the different cliques they fall into in high school.
What is classification?
500
_______ is a measure of how much command a writer has over a subject whereas _______ speaks to the writer's honesty, respect for an audience and its values, and plain old likeability.
What is authority and credibility?
500
What is this an example of?
"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously."
What is hypophora?
500
This argument seeks to determine whether one known object or action belongs in a second- more highly contested- category.