Rhetorical Strategies
The primary categories of the rhetorical situation.
What are writer/speaker, audience, and topic.
A method of reasoning that involves telling a story.
What is narration?
The particular choice of words that a writer uses to convey an emotion.
What is diction?
Attacking the person rather than the argument.
What is ad hominem
Sub points that support your thesis.
What are claims?
This rhetorical appeal primarily seeks to convince the audience through use of emotion.
What is pathos?
A method of reasoning that explains how something works.
What is process analysis?
The arrangement of words or phrases in a sentence.
What is syntax?
A faulty way of rationalizing that one bad choice will lead to an improbable huge catastrophic result.
What is slippery slope?
Proven facts and details that support your thesis.
What is evidence?
This rhetorical appeal primarily seeks to convince the audience through use of logic.
What is logos?
A method of reasoning that using sensory details to explain something.
What is description?
Similarity of structure in a pair or series or related words, phrases, or clauses.
What is parallelism?
Exaggerating, misrepresenting, or just completely fabricating someone's argument.
What is straw man?
The opposing view point to your position.
What is the counterclaim?
This rhetorical appeal primarily seeks to convince the audience by capitalizing on the speaker's reputation and authority on the topic.
What is ethos?
Analyzing the reasonings that lead to a certain result.
What is cause and effect/causal analysis?
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.
What is anaphora?
This fallacy reasons that if everyone is doing something, you probably should be doing it as well.
What is bandwagon?
The task of gathering multiple sources to refine and support your position.
What is synthesizing?
This Greek philosopher introduced the primary rhetorical appeals.
Who is Aristotle?
The process of explaining what something means before discussing it.
What is definition?
The implied emotion that a writer has on a topic that is conveyed through their diction.
What is tone?
You presumed that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other.
What is false cause?
A defensible assertion that ties the entire argument together.
What is the thesis?