Appeals
Also literary terms
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
Examples
100
This technique is what authors use when they try to get the audience to feel a particular emotion such as fear
What is appeal to emotion
100
This tactic compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is simile
100
His final words in his famous speech was a great appeal to emotion. What are they?
What is Give me Liberty or give me Death!
100
Thomas Paine used persuasive techniques in his writing or in his speaking?
What is writing
100
"The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one hold's a spider, or some other loathsome insect over the fire..."
What is simile
200
This tactic gets the audience to believe that the idea, product, or candidate is the common sense choice, the practical and reasonable choice
What is appeal to logic?
200
This tactic compares two unlike things NOT using like or as
What is metaphor
200
Patrick Henry's used the technique frequently in which he asked a question in order to make a point. What is this type of question called?
What is rhetorical question
200
Thomas Paine used this technique when he argued that our choices were perseverance and fortitude or cowardice and submission.
What is contrast
200
You have nothing to lay hold of to wave yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do...."
What is repetition
300
"Mom, Dad, I won't have any friends at all if you don't let me go out on Friday night. I'll be all alone and sad and probably get bullied at school." What is this an example of?
What is appeal to emotion
300
This tactic appeals to emotion by getting using details that appeal to an audience's five senses
What is imagery
300
Patrick Henry complimented his audience, even the men who had just spoke in opposition to his point of view. This technique is called what?
What is concession to the opposition
300
What is something Thomas Paine compared the King of England to in his famous metaphor that follows this line: "I cannot see on what grounds the kind of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us..."
What is common murderer, highwayman, or housebreaker (burglar)
300
"Mr. President, no man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House."
What is concession to the opposition
400
We've tried everything else, and nothing as worked. We are out of choices.
What is appeal to logic?
400
This is an indirect reference which the writer believes the audience will be familiar with, in order to connect two ideas
What is allusion
400
Henry also used the technique in which he thought ahead about the audience's counter arguments and was ready to shoot those arguments down. What is this called?
What is anticipating the opponent's argument
400
What technique does Paine use when he argues that "the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph"
What is appeal to logic
400
"God...abhors you...you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours."
What is loaded language
500
Appeal to logic is also known as what?
What is appeal to reason
500
"Suffer not yourself to be betrayed by a kiss" from Patrick Henry's speech is an example of what persuasive technique that is also a literary term?
What is allusion
500
Give an example of one of Patrick Henry's appeals to logic from his speech?
What is (Mrs. Rine will decide)
500
What is the famous first line of Thomas Paine's "The Crisis"? "These are the times that....."
What is try men's souls.
500
Jennifer Aniston does commercials for Smart Water, Aveeno, and Living Proof. This is what type of persuasive technique?
What is appeal to authority (or testimonial)