Argument Terms
Information that has words that appeal to your emotions.
What is pathos?
What helps organize your writing to smoothly connect one idea to another.
What are transitions?
Grab the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
In an argument essay, this is the first sentence in a body paragraph (that states one of the reasons that supports your argument).
What is a topic sentence?
The word that means "threatening."
What is ominous or foreboding?
An appeal where the supporting evidence is facts and statistics.
What is logos?
What is the first part of the introduction called?
What is the hook or lead?
An appeal to credibility or ethics.
What is ethos?
In an argument essay, these should be included in your thesis, after you state your position, to serve as a map for your audience to follow/a preview of what is to come in the essay. This is called an outline thesis.
What are arguments/reasons?
The word that means "word choice."
What is diction.
An appeal where the supporting evidence is predicated upon the speaker's credibility or ethics.
What is an Ethos?
The end of an argument essay should include this to motivate your audience to behave or think differently after reading.
What is a Call to Action?
The ancient Greek who identified rhetorical appeals thousands of years ago.
Who is Aristotle?
What is Izzy?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
The paragraph where the writer concedes to the opposing argument.
What is the Counterclaim?
Every argument essay needs this to convey your position on the argument.
What is the claim or thesis?
The verb that means to admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it. It's part your counterclaim.
What is concede?
The name of the new healthy vending machine located in Commons.
What is Farmer's Fridge?
The author of Lord of the Flies.
Who is William Golding?
Evidence that explains the reason why the opposing is incorrect.
What is refutation or rebuttal?
The term used to classify logos, ethos, and pathos.
What are rhetorical appeals?
The verb that means to prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove.
What is to refute?
It must be done to avoid plagiarism and give credit to sources.
What is cite your sources?
What is Notice and Note?