Rhetorical Appeals
This appeal targets the audience’s emotions.
What is pathos?
What is a thesis statement?
What is ONE sentence that states your main argument?
MLA requires what font and size?
What is Times New Roman 12 pt.?
Adding a counterargument strengthens which appeal and why?
What is Ethos shows fairness and understanding or Logos shows facts and reasoning (has to explain answer).
The technique used to connect one paragraph smoothly to the next.
What are transition sentences?
This appeal uses logic, facts, and evidence.
What is logos?
Define a topic sentence.
What is the main idea of a paragraph?
This belongs in the top-right corner of every page.
What is Last name + page number header?
The tool students used during the MCC Library lesson to find peer-reviewed sources.
What are the MCC library databases?
This service can support students struggling emotionally, mentally, or with stress.
What is MCC Counseling Services?
This appeal relies on credibility or trustworthiness.
What is ethos?
The first step of the writing process where ideas are generated.
What is brainstorming/ rough draft?
In-text citations must include these two elements.
What is Author’s last name + page number?
Sources written by experts and reviewed by other scholars before publication.
What are peer-reviewed sources?
What is “Growth Mindset”?
What is Believing abilities develop through effort?
Frederick Douglass used this rhetorical appeal heavily in “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” when describing brutal realities of slavery.
What is pathos?
Explain why evidence must always be followed by analysis.
What is because evidence alone doesn't show the writer’s reasoning or connection to the argument?
How should entries on the Works Cited page be arranged?
What is Alphabetically by author’s last name?
What does the “C” in CRAAP stand for?
What is Currency?
Write the correct MLA in-text citation for a quote.
What is (Johnson 56)?
When a writer acknowledges the opposing side before refuting it, what rhetorical strategy is this?
What is counterargument and rebuttal?
What is the full acronym for the struture of a paragraph?
What is Point, Illustration/Information, and Explaination?
The correct order of MLA heading (first four lines).
What is Name, Instructor, Course, Date?
What is the full CRAAP acronym stands for ?
What is Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose?
A rhetorical analysis acronym used in English/Language Arts to break down a text's persuasive elements
What is Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, and Tone?