attention to the right time and place for an argument
What is Kairos?
100
to appeal to the popular opinion or belief
What is Doxa?
200
Red Herring
What is it called when some arguments employ unrelated information in order to distract the audience's attention from the idea at hand?
200
Straw man
What is the visual metaphor of the straw man effectively represents this fallacy
200
false needs
What is it called when the author amplifies a perceived need or creates a completely new one
200
the concise statement of your interpretation about a particular text, issue, or event
What is thesis?
200
Rhetoric
What is the ability to see the available means of persuasion in any given situation
300
involves the oversimplification of a complicated issue
What is either or argument?
300
Rhetoric Situation
What is dynamic relationships between audience in any given situation
300
Rhetorical Strategies
What is a technique used to move or persuade the audience?
300
Scare tactics
What is it called when pathos capitalizes on the audiences fears, sometimes unreasonably, to make a point?
300
Slippery slope
What is the variation of scare tactics that suggests that one will lead to a chain of events that results in an unforeseen, inevitable, and undesirable conclusion, without providing evidence to support the claim?
400
Equivocation
What is the argument that fall prey to this fallacy use ambiguous terminology that misleads the audience or confuses the issue
400
Bandwagon appeal
What is the emotional fallacy that hinges on the premise that since everyone else is doing it, so should you?
400
Hasty generalization
What is it called when you draw a conclusion too quickly without providing enough support or consider the nuances of the issue?
400
False analogy
What is it called when one claims that two things resemble each other when they actually do not?
400
Stacking the evidence
What is an argument that provides only one side of the issue called?
500
Stacking the evidence
What is it called when an argument that presents only one side of an issue
500
This form of circular logic uses an argument as evidence for itself, thereby evading the issue at hand
What is begging the question?
500
Ad Hominem
What is the strategy that attempts to persuade by reducing the credibility of opposing positions through attacks on a person's character?
500
Argument from authority
What is the writer contends to be an authority - or holds another up to be an authority - based on an overinflated or fallacious suggestion of expertise?
500
Authority over evidence
What is the mode of argument involving the practice of overemphasizing authority or ethos rather than focusing on the merits of the evidence itself