Persuasive Devices
Speech Organization
Setting
Logical Arguments
Irony
100
The reason an author writes
What is author's purpose?
100
Something people hate to do in public
What is speak?
100
The time and place in which a story unfolds
What is the setting
100
A type of argument that goes from general to specific
What is deductive?
100
The difference between what is said and what is meant or what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
What is irony?
200
The three most common purposes for writing
What is inform, entertain, and persuade
200
Three things a public speaker should try to do while speaking
What is make eye contact, don't talk too fast or too slow, and make simple hand gestures
200
The easiest setting element to determine
What is physical location?
200
This type of argument goes from specific to general
What is inductive argument?
200
There are this many basic forms of irony
What is three?
300
What a novel's purpose is
What is entertain
300
Speech order that is logical and goes from beginning to end
What is sequential
300
Using clues about wars or current presidents gives us an idea of this
What is the historical period?
300
This will invalidate an argument if used even one time
What is a false premise?
300
A character says one thing but means another
What is verbal irony?
400
Something in a newspaper that can persuade a reader in how to think, vote, or act
What is the opinion pages?
400
Used mostly by motivational speakers
What is problem/solution
400
Two more ways to determine what time or historical period a story takes place
What is language and culture?
400
This can fool us into believing an argument is sound
What is faulty logic?
400
The difference between what you expected to happen and what actually happened is this kind of irony.
What is situational?
500
Five things that will affect how an audience will react
What is age, gender, religion, finances, and ethnicity
500
Used mostly by informative speakers especially about science and math
What is Cause and Effect
500
The nickname for World War I
What is The Great War?
500
Three main types of faulty logic
What is circular reasoning, eithor/or, and cause/effect
500
When the audience understands something that the character does not.
What is dramatic irony