SPACECAT
What is the P in SPACECAT
What is Purpose
What is the main claim or stance of an argument?
What is Thesis
What is Latin for “It happened after, so it was caused by”?
What is Post Hoc
What is a Greek word meaning “character”?
What is Ethos
What are sources working against one another or A; However B?
What is Counter Argument
What are the 2 different kinds of Audiences?
What is direct and indirect audience
What is the formal structure of an argument?
What is Line of Reasoning
What is an argument that ignores any possible exceptions?
What is Sweeping Generalization
What is appealing to logic or “reasoning”?
What is Logos
What are sources working together or A+B, Therefore Y?
What is Consensus
What is the S in SPACECAT?
What is Speaker
What is a point used in writing to solidify or defend a writer’s main argument?
What is Claim
What is a question that groups more than one premise in the form of one?
What is Loaded Questions
What is one‘s credibility or “character”?
What is Pathos
What is an argument that creates a thesis using mainly pictures, graphs, or other visuals?
What is a visual thesis
What is the E in SPACECAT?
What is Exigence
What are the 3 levels of Cohesion?
What are Sentence, Paragraph, and Essay levels
What is an argument that provides a series of increasingly unpleasant and unrealistic outcomes in the case that one disagrees?
What is Slippery Slope
What type of appeal is this:
97% of St.Cats students use satchels.
What is Logos
What is a claim that acknowledges and allows for some aspect of the opposition?
What is Concessions
What is the effect of word choice?
What is Tone
What argument structure goes Claim>Evidence> Commentary ?
What is Deductive
What is an argument that jumps to a conclusion based on one piece of evidence?
What is Hasty Generalization
What type of appeal is this:
As their tired, aching feet walked on the burning pavement.
What is Pathos
What is a claim the provides conditions or limitations on an assertion?
What is Qualified Claims