Rhetoric: The Basics
The study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion.
"The class plays jeopardy" is an example of this.
What is a simple sentence?
What is ad hominem attack?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. For example, "And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York."
What is anaphora?
When the speaker appeals to their authority, virtue, or intelligence as a means of persuasion.
The CONTEXT for piece of the rhetoric including the call, audience, speaker, message, time & place.
What is the Rhetorical Situation?
The main idea comes first as in, "We reached Edmonton that morning, full of stories to tell our friends and neighbors."
What is a loose sentence?
What is the Bandwagon (Ad Populum) Fallacy?
Omitting conjunctions from a series of related clauses. For example, "a great empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest."
What is asyndeton?
The act of evoking emotions in the audience or reader in order to persuade.
What is pathos?
The inspiration that prompts the writer to create a text.
What is exigence?
The main idea comes at the end, as in "In the almost incredibly brief time, Ashe fell in love."
What is a periodic sentence?
The following is an example of which fallacy? "The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe, but what will fishers do to support their families?
What is a red herring fallacy?
Two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect. For example, "it would be better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."
The act of appealing to logic, including facts, data and statistics.
What is logos?
How the writer or speaker feels about a subject. For example, is "fearful in the face of totalitarianism and leader worship."
What is tone?
Put me in between two independent clauses to give two ideas equal importance.
What is a semi-colon?
The following is an example of which fallacy? "If we put limits on the right to bear arms, soon all of our Constitutionally-give rights will be taken away."
What is the slippery slope fallacy?
The use of a number of conjunctions in close succession. For example, It was so cold I wore a hat, and a scarf, and boots, and mittens and an extra sweater."
What is polysyndeton?
A politician is advertising in your town to be the mayor. He says he was born in your neighborhood and knows what is best for you are your family.
What is ethos?
What the writer wants to accomplish
What is Purpose?
Have a sudden change in thought or tone? You can use me to connect one idea to the next.
What is a dash?
"Immigration to Alberta from Ontario increased. Soon after, welfare rolls increased. Therefore, the increased immigration cause the increased welfare rolls" - this is an example of which fallacy?
What is Post Hoc (Ergo Propter Hoc) Fallacy?
Reversing the grammatical order as in "all for one and one for all."
What is antimetabole?
Research compiled by analysts from NASA, as well as organizations from 5 other nations with space programs, suggests that moon colony is viable with international support.