WORD MEANINGS
This is the feelings or ideas a word suggests.
What is connotation?
This provides factual support for your claim, such as statistics, expert opinions, or research studies.
What is evidence?
These are the three types of irony.
What are verbal, dramatic, and situational?
These are the rhetorical strategies.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
These three dots (...) are used to show that words have been left out of a quotation or to create a pause for dramatic effect.
What are ellipses?
This is what a word literally means.
What is denotation?
This explains why your claim is valid and connects your evidence back to your main argument.
What are reasons?
When someone says "Great, another pop quiz!" but they're actually annoyed, this type of irony is being used
What is verbal irony?
This appeal uses facts, statistics, logical reasoning, or research to persuade the audience.
What is logos?
This type of verbal functions as an adjective and often ends in -ing or -ed, like "the running water" or "the broken window."
What is a participle?
These words in order from least to most intense emotional impact: irked, annoyed, furious, irritated.
What is annoyed, irked/irritated, furious?
This is an opposing argument that disagrees with your main claim and should be addressed in a strong argument.
What is a counterclaim?
When a character in a horror movie says "What could go wrong?" when the audience knows that everything is about to go wrong, this creates this type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
This appeal uses the speaker's credibility, expertise, or trustworthiness to persuade the audience.
What is ethos?
This is specialized vocabulary, terminology, and jargon specific to a particular field, industry, or profession used to communicate complex ideas with precision and efficiency
What is technical language?
The words "childish" and "youthful" have similar meanings, but this one has a negative connotation.
What is childish?
This is your response that weakens or disproves the counterclaim by providing contrary evidence or reasoning.
What is a rebuttal?
When a fire station burns down or a lifeguard drowns, this type of irony has occurred.
What is situational irony?
An advertisement showing sad, homeless animals with emotional music is primarily using this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
This verb mood is used to express commands, requests, or demands, like "Close the door" or "Please help me."
What is imperative mood?
After hiking for six hours without water, the campers were completely depleted. This word most nearly means this.
What is exhausted/drained/empty?
This type of claim lacks supporting evidence or proof, making it weak and unconvincing in an argument.
What is an unsubstantiated claim?
This is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of literature, like saying someone is "a real Romeo."
What is an allusion?
When a commercial features a famous athlete endorsing a product, this rhetorical appeal is primarily being used.
What is ethos?
This verb mood is used to express wishes, hypothetical situations, or conditions contrary to fact, often using words like "if" or "wish," such as "If I were rich..."
What is the subjunctive mood?