Name That Appeal
The Sarah McLaughlin animal abuse commercial relies on this rhetorical strategy to connect with the audience.
What is Pathos?
It is important to look for errors before you submit your essays in this writing process.
What is proofreading?
You should never do this when writing a thesis statement.
What is listing all arguments?
Ms. Epley constantly says this when discussing who your paper is geared toward.
What is audience?
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of what?
What is hyperbole?
This rhetorical strategy is used to build credibility in your writing.
What is Ethos?
This is the first part of the writing process and one of the most important.
What is review assignment?
Thesis statements need to have this identifiable characteristic to be an actual thesis statement.
What is arguable?
These people/groups would be the best audience for a paper written about cyber-bullying on campus.
Who are administrators, teachers, and students?
The Tree Octopus is an example of this kind of news.
What is fake news?
This strategy is used when including facts, stats, and reasoning into an essay.
What is Logos?
When you do this part of the writing process, you look for content errors to fix.
What is revising?
What is overly broad?
This acronym is helpful when analyzing articles for rhetorical analysis.
What is SPACE?
This is what happens when Grandma shares an Onion article thinking it's real.
What is misinformation?
Advertisements use this rhetorical strategy to play on our emotions.
What is Pathos?
This part of the writing process involves getting your ideas on the paper and out of your head.
What is pre-writing?
This is the goal of a thesis statement.
To answer an academic question.
These are statements you want to avoid when making an argument.
What are "I think/feel/believe" statements?
This is the term used for news that is fabricated and spread to mimic mainstream media.
What is fake news?
Advertisements that use celebrities to endorse their products employ this strategy.
What is Ethos?
This part of the process includes feedback from your instructor or feedback from peer-review before you move on to the next step.
What is a rough draft?
This is something you want to avoid in your essays altogether, but especially in thesis statements, in case you don't answer them all.
What is a rhetorical quesiton?
This acronym is helpful when creating an essay or keeping your paragraph organized.
What is TREE?
This is something we participate in when we only look at one side of the story.
What is bias?