Rhetorical Devices
Name the three types of rhetorical devices.
Logos, pathos, and ethos
What is Ad Hominem?
attacking the individual instead of the argument
Give an example of a bandwagon argument.
Everyone is doing it.
What type of logical fallacy is this an example of?
You are so uneducated that I chose not to listen to you.
Ad hominem
What gets bigger when more is taken away?
A hole
Who was the person who identified the three rhetorical devices?
Aristotle
What is appeal to majority/ bandwagon?
A claim is accepted to be true simply because most people are favorably inclined towards the claim
Create an example of the anecdotal fallacy.
He continues to smoke cigarettes, despite overwhelming and compelling scientific evidence that it is bad for your health, on the basis that “my grandpa smoked every day of his life and he lived to be 92 years old.”
What type of logical fallacy is this an example of?
Everyone plays the game "Among Us", so you should too.
Bandwagon
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Your breath
Appeal using credibility
What is a circular argument?
occurs when the end of an argument comes back to the beginning without having proven itself
Create an example of a circular argument.
What type of logical fallacy is this an example of?
You can either make all A's or you fail school.
Black and white
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window
What is pathos?
What is a black and white fallacy?
Two possibilities are presented as the only possibilities when in fact more possibilities exist.
Create an appeal to authority.
More doctors smoke Camels, therefore, they are the healthiest cigarette.
What type of logical fallacy is this an example of?
The prettiest state is Texas because it is beautiful.
Circular Argument
What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
stairs
What is logos?
Appeal using logic
What is appeal to authority?
Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument.
Give an example of an ad hominem fallacy.
Attacks the speaker instead of the argument.
Example: You gave no idea what you are talking about.
What type of logical fallacy is this an example of?
My teacher said that a lot of sugar is healthy.
Appeal to Authority
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
your name