Rhetorical Appeals
What is Ethos?
What is Credibility/Character
What is a Claim?
The point an author is trying to prove to be true.
What is the Strawman Fallacy?
an over simplification or the distorting of the original argument.
What is the Central Idea?
What the text is mainly about?
What is Deductive reasoning?
Conclusion made from generally known facts.
What is Pathos?
What is Evidence?
The relevant facts that support the claim.
What is the Bandwagon Fallacy?
When you say something is good or true because it is popular.
What is the Author's Purpose?
Why the author is writing the story.
What is Inductive reasoning?
Conclusion made from observations.
What is Logos?
What is logic and reasoning?
What is the Reasoning?
NIKE slogan, Just Do it, is an example of what fallacy?
Strawman
What is the Central Idea Equation?
Topic + Point = Central Idea
What is Abductive reasoning?
Conclusions made from previous Knowledge.
Is this an example of Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
A commercial about a specific brand of toothpaste says that 4 out of 5 dentists use it.
What is Ethos?
Claim + Evidence +Reasoning = Argument
Bonus Test-Taking Strategy: What should you circle and underline when you see it in a question?
When they ask for two answer choices
Bonus: Test-taking strategies - What is the most important thing to do when reading the answer choices?
Read all of the answer choices!
What Type of reasoning is being used here;
Whales are mammals
Balugas are whales
There for Balugas are mammals
Deductive Reasoning
Is this an example of Ethos, Pathos or Logos?
The data is perfectly clear: This investment has consistently turned a profit year-over-year, even in spite of market declines in other areas.
What is Logos?
Bonus Test taking strategy: If one of the answer choices was never talked about in class or by the teacher, what can you conclude?
Its not the correct answer
In a speech about higher education, the speaker says "If you want it, go get it". This is an example of what fallacy?
Strawman
What is the Authors perspective?
How the author feels about the topic.
What type of reasoning is being used here;
There are fresh flowers on the table,
My roommate works at a flower shop,
Therefore my roommate brought home flowers
Abductive Reasoning