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Persuasive Vocabulary
Claim and Support
Persuasive Appeals
Rhetorical Fallacies/figurative language
Fact/Opinion/
Commonplace Assertion
100
Author's main position/opinion about a problem or issue
What is claim or argument?
100
The author's statement that cell phones should be allowed in public if used responsibly.
What is the claim of the article?
100
crackdown, dangerous, crash, tragic, irresponsible
What is loaded language?
100
The title Helpful Handhelds or Disrupting Device
What is alliteration?
100
Cell phones need to be used with moderation.
What is opinion?
200
Methods used to convince the reader to believe the author's claim
What are persuasive appeals?
200
type of support used in the article when the author quotes various people.
What is testimonial?
200
Bruce Newman states, "Cell phones pose too much danger on the roads."
What is testimonial or expert opinion?
200
saying that sending text messages is like a game of ping pong.
What is simile?
200
Cell phones were used to call 911 during Columbine.
What is fact?
300
Misleading or false statements used to persuade the reader
What are rhetorical fallacies?
300
the type of support used in the article when the author uses emotionally charged words.
What is loaded language?
300
A team of researches concluded that drivers that were using cell phones exhibited greater impairment than intoxicated drivers.
What is logic/analogy?
300
Some blame the phone companies, but others plame the parents.
What is ad hominem?
300
A Scottish team was put in rehab for texting too much.
What is fact?
400
Addressing the opposing side's argument in order to discredit it.
What is counterargument?
400
the type of support used when the author states the number of text messages that teenagers send.
What is logic?
400
The paragraph the describes the tragedy at Columbine High School.
What is emotional appeal/red herring?
400
What about kids and teens who use their cell phone devices to send 300 texts a day?
What is stereotype?
400
Cell phones should be allowed in public places.
What is opinion?
500
A statement widely regarded as fact, iwth no evidence to prove it.
What is commonplace assertion?
500
word used to describe the author's tone.
What is serious, forceful?
500
helpful, needed, time-saver, save lives
What is loaded language?
500
False means of persuading.
What is rhetorical fallacy?
500
Cell phones can save lives.
What is commonplace assertion.