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Voice
Rhetoric
Fallacies
Reading Persuasion
Smorgasborg
100
This strategy involves a conversation and is often punctuated with quotes.
What is dialogue?
100
Appeals to someone's common sense.
What is Logic (logos)?
100
This is a mistake in logical thinking.
What is a fallacy?
100
This is an approach that uses provable facts
What is objective approach?
100
This is what you use to convince someone; another word for proof.
What is evidence?
200
This strategy involves telling a story.
What is an anecdote?
200
The writer proves herself to be honest and trustworthy.
What is Appeal to Ethos (Ethics)?
200
Puts all members of a group together, giving them usually undesirable qualities.
What is stereotyping?
200
This strategy helps you break down an argument into smaller pieces.
What is summarizing?
200
This means to convince someone to act or believe in a certain way.
What is persuade?
300
This strategy involves posing a question to the reader.
What is a rhetorical question?
300
Uses facts and statistics.
What is Logical Appeals?
300
Saying one event causes another simply because the two occur in sequence.
What is false cause and effect?
300
Builds a sense of urgency for your cause and incites people to act.
What is Call to Action?
300
This is another word for believability. If you have a witness who is believable, you have a ____________ witness.
What is credibility or credible?
400
This strategy involves humor and sarcasm, among other things.
What is Different Angles?
400
Speaks to reader's emotions
What is Pathos (Emotion)?
400
Assumes there are only two possible choices.
What is Either Or Fallacy?
400
This approach focuses on writer's experiences, feelings and opinions.
What is subjective approach?
400
This can be the person who disagrees with you as well as that person's opposing viewpoints.
What is the opposition?
500
The phrase, "he was a fox " is an example of this strategy.
What is Different Angles?
500
Commercials about abandoned puppies use a large degree of this appeal.
What is Appeal to Emotion (Pathos)?
500
General statement made after only a few observations.
What is a hasty generalization?
500
This strategy helps create connections and deepen your understanding of the text.
What is Questioning?
500
Reflects the writer's attitude towards the subject or audience.
What is tone?