Transition Words
This word shows contrast between ideas.
Answer: What is however?
An ad uses statistics and facts to convince you.
Answer: What is Logos?
Comparing two things using “like” or “as.”
Answer: What is a Simile?
Repeating words or phrases for emphasis.
Answer: What is Repetition?
Using fear to persuade instead of evidence.
Answer: What is Appeal to Fear?
This word is used to show a result or conclusion.
What is therefore?
A speaker tries to make the audience feel sad for others.
Answer: What is Pathos?
A direct comparison without using “like” or “as.”
Answer: What is a Metaphor?
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
Answer: What is Alliteration?
Believing something is true just because an expert or celebrity says it is.
Answer: What is Appeal to Authority?
This word adds more information.
What is furthermore?
A doctor gives advice to make an argument more trustworthy.
Answer: What is Ethos?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
Answer: What is Personification?
Saying the opposite of what you mean (sarcasm).
Answer: What is Verbal Irony?
Asking a question that already assumes something is true.
Answer: What is a Loaded Question?
This word shows something happening at the same time.
What is meanwhile?
A commercial uses emotional music to persuade viewers.
Answer: What is Pathos?
Language that appeals to the five senses.
Answer: What is Imagery?
When the audience knows something characters don’t.
What is Dramatic Irony?
Comparing two things that aren’t really similar in a way that leads to a false conclusion.
Answer: What is a False Analogy?
This phrase introduces evidence or an example.
What is for example?
A professional shares credentials to build credibility.
Answer: What is Ethos?
An extreme exaggeration.
Answer: What is Hyperbole?
When the outcome is the opposite of what’s expected.
Answer: What is Situational Irony?
Claiming something must be true simply because it hasn’t been proven false.
Answer: What is an Appeal to Ignorance?