Rhetorical Appeals
The use of facts and data to persuade others.
What is Logos?
The target or group of people the writer/speaker believes they are addressing.
What is Audience?
This method of development is employed to discuss the similarities and differences within a particular topic.
What is comparison-contrast?
This is a pattern of reasoning whereby general observations are placed in conjunction with one another to make a specific logical conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
What is seven?
This is an appeal to emotion.
What is Pathos?
The surrounding information including the time, location, and culture considered when creating a text.
What is context?
What is cause-effect?
This is a pattern of reasoning whereby trends among specific occurrences are observed to create a general logical conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
Both Emerson and Thoreau were part of this philosophical movement.
What is transcenentalism?
Setting up a source as credible and trustworthy; an appeal to credibility.
What is Ethos?
The author's persuasive intention.
What is Purpose?
Virginia Woolfe utilized this method of development in order to show how humans are small, insignificant, and lead meaningless lives.
What is description?
"Mr. Herman is a bad AP Lang teacher because he is the devils nephew and kicks old ladies in the shins" is an example of this logical fallacy.
What is ad hominem?
This is the status of Schrodinger's cat's existence.
What is both dead and alive?
Animal shelters ads with pictures of cute sad animals and dramatic music are using this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
The reason why a person is speaking or writing.
What is exigence?
Stephen Hawking used this method of development to connect his complex ideas with his audience.
What is definition?
"Mr. Herman is a bad AP Lang teacher, but what is really important to focus on is on how lunch in the cafeteria is awful. Don't you all want better lunches?" is an example of this logical fallacy.
What is red herring?
These are the three types of essays one has to write on the AP Language exam.
What are the synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argument essays.
Mr. Herman wearing a suit to a speech and speaking with an advanced vocabulary rather than wearing ripped jeans and cussing would be an example of his consideration of which rhetorical appeal?
What is Ethos?
This is the name of the Greek philosopher who first discussed the original "rhetorical triangle" of subject, audience, and purpose.
Who is Aristotle?
This is a point of contrast Roxanne Gay makes in her essay on coming out.
What is whatever Mr. Herman accepts as correct for this open-ended answer?
"If the school allows Mr. Herman to teach AP Language, this will only lead to other horrible AP Lang Teachers in the future. Who knows, maybe this will also lead to the school selecting the worst teachers for all AP classes" is an example of this logical fallacy.
What is slippery slope?
This is a pirates favorite subway line.
What is the R train (aarrgghhh)?