It's all Greek to me!
Ad it Up!
It's as Easy as PIE!
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Word meaning "suffering experience;" used as a root word in the terms "empathy" and "pathological"
What is Pathos?
Pathos: An appeal to the audience's emotions, producing an emotional experience through language, images, or sounds.
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What is McDonald's?
I'm lovin' it: An epideictic statement relating to the feeling one gets when taking a bite of a delicious chicken nugget; utilizes pathos!
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Watch this scene from Avengers: Endgame
What is Entertaining?
Captain America uses Mjolnir: The Marvel Franchise spent nearly a decade of world-building to grant their audience a thrilling reveal -- Thor is not the only one capable of using this divinely forged Hammer!
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Term: Of or pertaining to rhetoric of ceremony, declaration; to show or display
What is Epideictic?
Epideictic: describes rhetoric that makes a statement about the present
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"Let's Go Places"
What is Toyota?
Let's Go Places: A statement of symbouleutikon relating to the action of exploring; utilizes pathos!
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"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
What is Entertaining and Persuasive?
The Road Not Taken: Describes a metaphorical journey where Frost is faced with maintaining the status quo or working outside of the norm. The last lines of the poem read
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
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From the Greek word "ethea," meaning "an accustomed place; forms the root of the Greek word "ethikos."
What is Ethos?
Ethos: An appeal to the audience's desire for credibility, producing a trustworthy experience through language, images, or sounds.
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"That was easy."
What is Staples?
A forensic statement relating to the action of shopping at Staples; utilizes pathos!
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The Tortoise and the Hare
What is Entertaining, Persuasive, and Informative?
The Tortoise and the Hare: Have you ever heard the adage, "Slow and Steady wins the Race?" That comes from this fable, a story meant to both educate and entertain. This story also functions as a persuasive text to further the agenda of the aforementioned adage!
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A word today often used to describe evidence at a crime scene, but comes from the Latin word "forum," meaning "place of assembly."
What is Forensic?
Forensic: describes rhetoric that makes a statement about the past
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Watch this video from the Office!
What is Kit-Kat?
An epideictic statement relating to the sharing of a Kit-Kat bar; utilizes pathos and logos!
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Michael Jackson's "Heal the World" and "They Don't Really Care About Us"
What is Persuasive, Informative, and Entertaining?
Heal the World: The chorus of this song reads,
"Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me."
While Jackson was an entertainer first, he often used his platform to educate and argue for human rights.
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Also known as deliberative rhetoric, not a root word, but a transliteration of the Greek word "συμβουλευτικόν."
What is Symbouleutikon?
Symbouleutikon: describes rhetoric that makes a statement about the future
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Watch the following video. This as a debut of a very specific product. What is the product, and in what year was it released?
What is the Apple iPod?
Are you Gonna be my Girl?: An upbeat rock song from the one-hit-wonder Jet, "Are you Gonna be my Girl" peaked at 29 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave
What is Persuasive, Informative, and Entertaining?
Allegory of the Cave: A philosophical text that seeks to compare "the effect of education" and "the lack of it in our nature."
Plato uses a figurative, extended story, or allegory, to describe the phenomenon of being exposed to new information for the first time, then attempting to share your newfound knowledge with those you left behind, to which they say: "No thank you!" Plato then goes on to explain how this phenomenon is a blight on civilized society.