This most basic unit of argument asserts something to be true.
What is a claim?
100
An appeal to emotion. Literally means "suffering" or "experience."
What is Pathos.
100
Identify the fallacy in the following passage: Miskatonic University must be a great school, because their enrollment numbers are the highest in the region.
What is bandwagon or ad populum fallacy?
100
This is the author's reason for writing.
What is purpose?
100
This language is English's closes living language relative.
What is German?
200
This supports a claim.
What is data or evidence?
200
An appeal to facts and reason. Literally means "Truth."
What is Logos?
200
This type of argument moves from generally accepted premises to a specific conclusion based on those premises.
What is deductive argument?
200
The qualities of this, such as age or education, will impact what and how a writer writes.
What is audience?
200
What language was the primary and direct source of the English alphabet?
What is Latin?
300
This is the often unspoken idea that validates the connection between claim and evidence.
What is a warrant?
300
The following passage is an example of what appeal?
"Michelin. Because so much is riding on your tires." (A baby is pictured next to a Michelin tire.)
What is Pathos?
300
This is a representation of a deductive argument in which one or more premises is unstated or implied.
What is an enthymeme?
300
Much like Aristotle's idea of Kairos, this includes the time and place of communication, as well as other factors like culture and current events.
What is context?
300
These three Germanic tribes brought English to the British Isle.
Who were the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes?
400
This is a statement that supports a warrant.
What is backing?
400
This is an appeal to character, authority, or credibility.
What is Ethos.
400
Name the fallacy in the following syllogism:
All banks are beside rivers.
Banks are the safest place to store your money.
Therefore, we should all bury our money beside rivers.
What is equivocation?
400
This is the method of communication your message.
What is medium (or channel)?
400
Because of Norman invaders in 1066, English contains a large number of words from this language.
What is French?
500
Identify the implied warrant in the following statement: Because James was born in Puerto Rico, he must be an American citizen.
What is "People born in Puerto Rico are American citizens."?
500
This is the time and place that makes an appeal or argument appropriate.
What is Kairos.
500
This form of logic moves from specific phenomena (evidence) to a general conclusion that explains the evidence/phenomena.
What is induction or inductive reasoning?
500
A type of writing or speech, this gives rise to conventions and audience expectations.
What is genre?
500
These invaders first came to plunder monasteries, but later settled in England and brought words like skull, school, and dirt into the English language.