The Rhetorical Situation
He was a Greek philosopher who lived in the 4th century BCE. He was an influential thinker and wrote on many subjects –from logic and ethics, to biology and metaphysics.
Who is Aristotle?
This relationship has reached a dead-end.
What is a metaphor?
A speech celebrating the good qualities of a person at their funeral or memorial service
What is a eulogy?
It functions like a period to separate two independent clauses. In other words, the groups of words on each side of this punctutation mark shoudl be able to stand alone as sentences.
What is a semi-colon?
This fallacy occurs when one speaker exaggerates another speaker's argument so that they might as well be arguing with a scarecrow
What is the straw man fallacy?
Another name for the speaker or writer
What is "rhetor'?
You should believe me because I have a PhD in that subject.
What is an appeal to ethos?
A claim about what the listener should do
What is a policy claim?
It's a comma where a period, semi-colon, colon, or comma + conjunction should be
What is a comma splice?
What is the bandwagon fallacy?
The problem, need, or shortcoming that a speaker tries to address with a speech
What is the exigence?
You can either go big or go home.
What is a false dilemma fallacy?
Aristotle's terms for the kind of rhetoric that attempts to make claims about what happened in the past; for instance, legal arguments.
(Hint: it's also used to describe scientists who help solve crimes)
What is forensic?
It functions rather like a semi-colon, but the group of words that comes after it doesn't have to form an independent clause
What is a colon?
This fallacious line of reasoning attacks the person doing the arguing not the claim they make
What is an ad hominem argument?
This cognitive linguist is famous for his ideas about conceptual metaphor and framing
Who is George Lakoff?
The earth is flat because no-one has proved it isn't.
What is an argument from ignorance?
A mode of argument that prioritizes logical thought and reasoning
What is an appeal to logos?
It's a form of punctuation made by two hyphens typed next to each other
What is a dash?
This is a claim that because one event occurred after another one, the first event caused the second
What is the "post hoc" or causation/correlation fallacy?
A restaurant, movie, or product review is essentially this kind of claim
What is a value claim?
Politics is like a game of chess.
What is a simile?
Ethos
What is the credibility of the speaker?
It's a possessive pronoun, NOT the correct way to shorten "it is"
What is "its"?
Where you would go skiing, or a type of fallacy
What is a slippery slope?