Rhetorical Fallacies
This is when you make an assumption about something based on where it was born or made.
What is genetic fallacy
What is reading?
This is the voice of a text
What is the speaker?
This type of paragraph development delivers information
What is exposition?
The standard spacing for an essay written in MLA style.
What is double spacing
This is when you observe something one or two times and then decide that it will always happen the same way every time after that.
What is generalization from insufficient evidence
This is the way to generate support for an argument using the U in REHUGO
What are universal truths?
This is the event that sparked the writer to write the text
What is exigence?
This type of paragraph development tells a story
What is narration?
This is the format for an MLA-style header
What is last name, space, page number in the upper right corner?
This is when you assume that your claim is a given and you assume the audience agrees with it.
What is begging the question (and circular reasoning)
This is a way of generating support for an argument using the O in REHUGO
What is observations?
These are ethos, pathos, and logos.
What are appeals?
This type of paragraph development gives directions on how to do something
What is process analysis?
This is the approved font and size for MLA format
What is Times New Roman 12 point?
This is when you misrepresent what someone else has said in order to help prove your claim
What is false quotation?
This is a way of generating support for an argument using the E in REHUGO
What is entertainment?
These are all the decisions an author made when putting the idea into writing
What are choices?
This type of paragraph development asks the audience to take action or change their thinking
What is persuasion?
This is the correct order of information for an MLA-style heading
What is student name, teacher name, course name, date?
This is when you assume that because something happens after something else, that the first event causes the second one
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc
This is a way of generating support for an argument using the G in REHUGO
What is government/politics?
This is a way of describing the author's attitude towards the subject of the text
What is tone?
This type of paragraph development examines similarities among two or more things
What is comparison?
What typically goes into the parentheses in an MLA-style in-text citation?
What is author's last name and page number?
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The first word or words in the Works Cited page entry.