The Appeals
These literary tools are labeled in a triangle as logos, ethos, and pathos.
What is the device being used when an author uses a repeated sentence structure for emphasis or patterning?
Fill in the blank. The definition of logical fallacies is “potential vulnerabilities or ________ in an argument.”
Approximately how many multiple choice questions are on the AP Language and Composition Test?
"As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results." The previous line is an example of which appeal?
What is the term for repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence?
Attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself is _______________.
What type of claim asserts that a condition has existed, exists, or will exist and is based on facts or data that the audience will accept as being objectively verifiable?
From "A Modest Proposal”, Swift in lines 12-13 says, “And therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the commonwealth” What type of rhetorical appeal is used in the quoted lines?
What is a reference to another literary work called?
“My father smoked four packs of cigarettes a day since age fourteen and lived until age sixty-nine. Therefore, smoking really can’t be that bad for you.” What is this type of fallacy?
What type of claim asserts that specific courses of action should be instituted as solutions to problems?
When a question refers to how the passage is structure and organized it’s asking about the what?
"Indeed, even Steve Barr, the founder of Green Dot Public Schools lauded by "Waiting for Superman" as one of the leaders of the charter school movement, is vocally pro-union. In fact, all 17 of his charter schools are fully unionized, and the one in Bronx opened as a result of direct collaboration between Green Dot and the AFT."
By saying someone “passed on” rather than saying they died, is an example of this.
What is it called when the person shaping an argument shifts the attention o to another important topic, but it is irrelevant?
In an argument, when an author argues whether something is good or bad, right or wrong, they are using what type of argumentative claim?
These types of question asks readers to determine how or why the author wrote the material.
"Now I'm guilt stricken, sobbing with my head on the floor, stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice."
When two opposing ideas, beliefs, characterizations are used to emphasize a point. In literature, this might look like Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort,
When verbally arguing, name two tactics the speaker should use.
What is speak clearly, take on the appropriate tone, eye contact, use evidence, don't fidget.
When arguments are based on the assumptions that having a full understanding of an opposing position is essential to responding persuasively in a way that is accommodating rather than alienating, they are known as what type of argument?
When a question refers to narration, exposition, description or persuasions it’s asking about what?