Rhetoric
The art of persuasion
Rhetoric
Attacking a person's hairstyle or clothing
Ad hominem
The language of Geoffrey Chaucer
Middle English
A fused sentence can be corrected with just a comma.
False
Use of logic in rhetoric
Logos
Oversimplification of a complex argument by giving it only two alternatives
Either - or fallacy
The language of William Shakespeare
Renaissance English
This punctuation symbol can often correct fused sentences.
Semi-colon
Use of emotion in rhetoric
Pathos
Comparing two things that do not illustrate or enable the argument
False analogy
A major playwright and poet who was born 500 years after Old English perished as a written language
Shakespeare
Every sentence requires these three components.
Subject, verb, and complete thought
Guiding principles and beliefs
Ethos
Assuming that something (or someone) is a cause of something else because it (or they) follows it
Post hoc or Faulty Causality
A no-longer-spoken language developed from old Germanic languages
Old English
An independent clause
Is essentially the same as a sentence
The Father of Logic
Socrates
Directing the audience's attention away from the opponents argument
Red Herring
The language of the Beowulf poet
Old English
A dependent or subordinate clause
Has a subordinate conjunction that prevents it from being a sentence