Rhetorical Situation
The annogram, "SOAPS," stands for this.
What is Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject.
The telling of a story or recounting a series of events is known by this term.
What is narration.
This fallacy occurs when someone, usually a celebrity, who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as credible
What is Appeal to False Authority
This is a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.
What is a clause
These make up the three sides to the rhetorical triangle
What are Speaker, Audience, and Subject
The denial of the validity of an opposing argument and often follows a concession that acknowledges an opposing argument is known as this.
What is refutation.
A brief story used to illustrate a point or claim is known as this.
What is an anecdote.
This fallacy occurs when the writer or speaker repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence.
What is Circular Reasoning
This device uses attribution of a lifelike (human or animal) quality to an inanimate object or idea.
What is Personification
This is the appeal to demonstrate that the author is credible and trustworthy on the given topic
What is Ethos
The difference between an open and a closed thesis is this.
What is an open thesis does not list all of the points the writer intends to cover where as a closed thesis is a statement of the main idea of the argument that previews the major points
The purpose of "cause and effect" is this
What is to analyze the causes that lead to a certain effect, or conversely, the effects that result from a cause is a powerful foundation for argument.
This fallacy's tagline is, “everybody’s doing it, so it must be a good thing to do.”
What is Ad Populum
This is the main difference between a complex sentence and a simple sentence.
What is that complex sentences include one independent clause and at least one dependent clause while simple sentences include a single independent clause with a single thought.
This is greek for “embodied thought”
What is Logos
First hand evidence is mainly based on the knowledge from this identity.
What is the writer
The difference between "Exemplification" and "Definition" is this.
What is that exemplification focuses more on specific examples where as definition focuses more on a singular phrase to explain the word/words at hand.
This fallacy occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea.
What is Straw Man
This is the main difference between independent and dependent clauses.
What is that they differ as independent clauses can stand alone as sentences while dependent clauses don’t express complete thoughts.
This is greek for “suffering” or “experience”
What is Pathos
A chain of reasoning moving from general, universal principles to specific instances is known as this.
What is "syllogism"
The specific type of language and appeals that focus on emotions while trying to convince someone, is known as this.
What is Persuasion
This fallacy, in Latin means, for “after which therefore because of which,” meaning that it is incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier.
What is Post hoc ergo propter hoc
These are the five different types of irony
What are Verbal Irony, Structural Irony, Cosmic Irony, Dramatic Irony, Tragic Irony
These make up the five canons of rhetoric
What are Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, Delivery