Rhetorical Terms
Ethical Fallacies
Fallacies of Pathos
Fallacies of Logos
Multimodal Terms
100
Kairos
What is "the opportune moment," or the right time to make an argument?
100
Ad Hominem
What is the term for tearing down an argument by making a personal attack?
100
Ad Populum
What is a term to describe an appeal to traditional wisdom or popular opinion?
100
Slippery Slope Fallacy
What is arguing that one event with inevitably snowball into a bigger problem?
100
Contrast
What is drawing attention to important things through differences in shade and color?
200
Ethos
What is the term for a person's character?
200
Guilt by Association
What is the term for an attack on someone's argument by associating them with another guilty party?
200
Threats & Rewards
What is a term that describes how someone can divert attention from issue to potential consequences?
200
False Dilemma
What is forcing readers to choose the desirable conclusion by pitting it against a clearly undesirable conclusion as the only other option?
200
Font
What is the style of text?
300
Pathos
What is the term for an appeal to the audience's emotions?
300
Poisoning the Well
What is term for tearing down an argument through a biased and emotional attack that makes it impossible to agree with the opposition?
300
Red Herring
What is a term that describes how someone diverts attention towards irrelevant issues?
300
Post Hoc
What is falsely identifying the cause of the problem?
300
Alignment
What is the arrangement of text, shapes, and images so that they form neat lines?
400
Logos
What is the term for an appeal to reason?
400
False Authority
What is pretending to be an authority with no credentials?
400
God words and devil words
What are words that either have extremely good or extremely bad connotations?
400
Stacking the Deck
What is ignoring evidence to the contrary?
400
Composition
What is the the artistic arrangement of parts of a picture?
500
Reason
What is a piece of evidence that backs up the main claim?
500
Giving a Balanced Presentation
What is fairly presenting both sides of the argument?
500
Irony
What is "to use one's language to mean the opposite" for humorous effect?
500
Non Sequitur
What is a conclusion with no apparent connection to the reasons?
500
Unity
What is the state of being united or joined as a whole?
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