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.
9. Part B: Select two details that best contribute to the development of each of the two central ideas in Part A. (R.2.2)
B. “When I disembarked from the river-boat at Jacksonville, she was no more.” (Paragraph 5)
C. “No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” (Paragraph 6)
What is Inductive reasoning?
Conclusion made from observations.
What is Logos?
What is logic and reasoning?
What is the Reasoning?
VOCABULARY!
6. Which word from the text comes from a Latin word meaning "best of its kind, noblest, bravest, most virtuous"? (V.1.2)
C. Aristocratic (Paragraph 8)
8. Part A: Which two central ideas does Hurston develop throughout her text? (R.2.2)
C. Change can create a lasting impression on a person’s life.
D. Being of color is not something that one should be ashamed of.
What is Abductive reasoning?
Conclusions made from previous Knowledge.
5. How does the author’s use of similes and metaphors in paragraph 8 advance the overall appeal of the passage? (R.3.4)
D. It appeals to the emotions of her audience, by using powerful and inspiring language to express her perception of herself
Claim + Evidence +Reasoning = Argument
Bonus Test-Taking Strategy: What should you circle and underline when you see it in a question?
- Key words and phrase that help you answer the question.
3. How does the author use paragraph 5 to convey meaning in her text? (R.2.1)
C. It shows when and where the author first discovered her true identity.
1. Part A: How does Hurston use logical reasoning to develop the claim of her being the first “welcome-to-our-state” Floridian? (R.2.4)
B. by abductive reasoning, starting with a pattern of ways that she interacted with the tourists in Eatonville.
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?
10. Select a statement that best demonstrates how Hurston can improve her argument on her origin made in paragraph 1. (R.2.4)
A. by including facts that support her maternal background
VOCABULARY!!
7. What does the word “register” mean as it is used in this sentence? (V.1.3)
A. To record automatically
4. In paragraph 7, how does Hurston achieve her purpose by alluding to the Reconstruction Period? (R.2.3)
B. She provides a reference to the events that were critical in the shaping of her self-identity.
2. Which TWO sentences from the text best support the answer to Part A? (R.2.4)
A. “I would probably “go a piece of the way” with them,” (Paragraph 3)
C. “I’d wave at them and when they returned my salute, I would say something like this: “Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-where-you-goin’?” (Paragraph 3)