Rhetoric
Define the terms: logos, ethos, pathos
Logos: logic, numbers, reasoning
Ethos: trust, respect, qualifications of the speaker, recommendations
Pathos: Feelings, Emotions, images, colors, music
Which appeal is it?
Power lines cause cancer. I met a little boy with cancer who lived just 20 miles from a power line who looked into my eyes and said, in his weak voice, “Please do whatever you can so that other kids won’t have to go through what I am going through.” I urge you to vote for this bill to tear down all power lines and replace them with monkeys on treadmills.
Appeal to emotion
What is the tone of the following quote?
“Luisa grinned and jumped up and down at the thought of going to the beach. This was going to be great! She thought this might be the best vacation her family had ever gone on. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and everything was wonderful!”
happy, excited, overjoyed, etc.
Identify which of the following is slang, informal or formal speech.
1) What is up?
2) ‘Sup, bra!
3) What’s up?
1) Formal
2) Slang
3) Informal
What type of humor is the following example?
No matter what method he tried—tying a boulder to his feet to gain speed on the Road Runner, painting false tunnels on granite cliffs, strapping himself onto a rocket and lighting the fuse—he failed every time.
Slapstick
Which two persuasive strategies are being used in this advertisement?
“You should buy Quik-Clean because it cleans 40% faster and moms love it!”
Logos, ethos
Which fallacy is it?
Timmy: Mom, what if I don’t believe in God?
Mom: Then you burn in Hell forever. Why do you ask?
Timmy: No reason.
Appeal to fear
What type of figurative language is the following:
Julie wears so much make-up she has to use a sandblaster to get it off at night.
Hyperbole
What is the purpose of the speech?
I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn't be our style. Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever. It's been an honor sharing the field of battle with you.
To thank, and inspire.
What type of humor is the following quote?
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.”
Satire
Identify which quote is using pathos, which is logos, and which is ethos.
"50% of marriages end in divorce"
"My mother died of cancer when I was twelve. I saw her pain and suffering which is why I want to support cancer research."
"Before I was president, I was the governor of New York."
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
Which appeal is demonstrated in the following quote?
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.”
-1984
Bandwagon
Which figurative language is the following:
"He was a remarkable Prime Minister with feet of clay".
Metaphor
Who is most likely the audience of the following speech?
"They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."
a group of teenage boys
What type of humor is the following example?
Your little sister puts on your father’s big shoes and stomps around in them, saying, “I need to make a business call. I am a very busy, very important businessman!”
Parody
Which appeal is the following quote?
"History has shown time and again that absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Logos
Traditional fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Snow White, use which logical fallacy?
Appeal to Fear
Identify a theme, motif, and symbol in the following poem:
In the spring, I asked the daisies
If his words were true,
And the clever, clear-eyed daisies
Always knew.
Now the fields are brown and barren,
Bitter autumn blows,
And of all the stupid asters
Not one knows.
Symbol: the flowers, the blows, etc.
Motif: truth, answers, flowers, death
Theme: When we are young, everybody has the answers, but when we get old, they don’t anymore.
Which punctuation helps create pacing in the following example?
You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead.
If we don't come together, right now, on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed -- just like they were.
I don't care if you like each other or not. But you will respect each other.
And maybe -- I don't know -- maybe we'll learn to play this game like men.
The --
Identify the types of humor in the example
What is the hardest part of a vegetable to eat?
The wheelchair.
Dark Humor, Pun
Which appeals are in the following example?
"When I am the nominee, I will offer a clear choice. John McCain won't be able to say that I ever supported this war in Iraq, because I opposed it from the beginning. Senator McCain said the other day that we might be mired for a hundred years in Iraq, which is reason enough to not give him four years in the White House.
If we had chosen a different path, the right path, we could have finished the job in Afghanistan, and put more resources into the fight against bin Laden; and instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Baghdad, we could have put that money into our schools and hospitals, our road and bridges – and that's what the American people need us to do right now."
Barack Obama, Potomac Primary Night Speech, February 12, 2008
Ethos, logos
Which appeal affected the decision of the jury according to this quote?
“Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”
-To Kill a Mockingbird
Bandwagon
Identify 4 devices that are being used by the following quote.
“My love is like a red, red rose.”
Simile, Imagery, Alliteration, Repetition
What is the primary strategy in the following speech?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.”
Compare/contrast
Identify the satirical strategies in the example
The Devil’s Dictionary
Love, noun. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Patience, noun. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Parody, Incongruity, Exaggeration