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Persuasive Language
Define This
To Argue or Not To Argue
Choose Your Words Wisely
That's So Appealing
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The strategies and methods an author uses to persuade their audience.
What are rhetorical devices?
100
The message conveyed to the audience by a text.
What is theme?
100
A statement made about a topic or subject at the beginning of an argument.
What is a claim?
100
Word Choice.
What is diction?
100
An appeal that uses statistics, facts and reasoning.
What is logos?
200
The art of effective persuasion and communication through speaking and writing. Persuasive language.
What is rhetoric?
200
Define the word "stagger."
What is "to walk, move or stand unsteadily."
200
To create an immediate response or sense of urgency in the audience.
What is a call to action?
200
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
Appealing to one's emotions.
What is pathos?
300
The ancient civilization that first used appeals and rhetoric.
What is Greece?
300
Define the word "precise."
What is "definite or exact?"
300
An opinion, attitude, judgement or perspective.
What is point of view?
300
The feelings, attitudes or emotions associated with a word; a secondary meaning.
What is connotation?
300
The Greek word for "character." A trustworthy appeal.
What is Ethos?
400
The examination or study of strategies, methods and devices authors use to persuade their audience in certain ways.
What is rhetorical analysis?
400
Define the word "menace."
What is "something that threatens to cause evil, harm or injury; a threat?"
400
To acknowledge the other side of an argument.
What is a counterargument?
400
The general feeling created in the audience when reading a text.
What is mood?
400
An anecdote (personal story) creates what type(s) of appeal(s)?
What is logos, pathos and ethos?
500
The philosopher that created appeals and rhetoric.
Who is Aristotle?
500
Define the term "refute."
What is "to prove to be false?"
500
A genre of writing that expresses an opinion.
What is an editorial?
500
The author's feelings or attitude towards the subject they are writing about.
What is tone?
500
The power or ability to attract, interest, amuse, or stimulate the mind or emotions.
What is an appeal?