Appeal to Me
This appeal persuades with facts, statistics, and reasoning.
What is logos?
A question asked for effect, with no answer expected.
What is a rhetorical question?
The soothsayer warns Caesar to beware this date.
What is the Ides of March?
The main, arguable position a writer defends
What is a claim?
The people a speaker or writer is trying to reach.
What is the audience?
This appeal persuades by stirring the audience’s feelings.
What is pathos?
Repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
What is anaphora?
This conspirator manipulates Brutus, partly by planting forged letters.
Who is Cassius?
Facts, examples, quotations, or data used to support a claim.
What is evidence?
What the writer hopes to accomplish or make the audience do.
What is purpose?
This appeal rests on the speaker’s credibility and character.
What is ethos?
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
Brutus delivers his funeral speech in this form rather than verse, making it sound plain and rational.
What is prose?
An opposing viewpoint the writer acknowledges.
What is a counterclaim (or counterargument)?
The writer’s attitude toward the subject, revealed through diction.
What is tone?
This Greek term refers to the timeliness of an argument, or choosing the right moment to make it.
What is kairos?
Antony repeatedly calls Brutus “an honorable man” while meaning the opposite, an example of this device
What is verbal irony?
Antony teases the crowd with this document but delays reading it, building their desire to hear it.
What is Caesar's will?
The writer’s response that disproves or weakens the opposing view.
What is a rebuttal (or refutation)?
The time, place, and circumstances surrounding a text.
What is context? (or occasion)
When Brutus asks the crowd to believe him “for mine honor,” he is mainly using this appeal.
What is ethos?
“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more” balances contrasting ideas in parallel structure, an example of this.
What is antithesis?
Before speaking at the funeral, Antony agrees to this condition set by Brutus
What is not blaming the conspirators (and speaking only by their permission)?
This logical fallacy attacks a person’s character instead of their argument.
What is ad hominem?
The urgent problem or event that prompts a writer to respond.
What is exigence?
Brutus wins the crowd’s approval with reason and his reputation for honor, but Antony turns them into a mob by relying most heavily on this appeal, using Caesar’s body, cloak, and will.
What is pathos?