Project 3
Rhetorical Appeal
Vocab Terms
Genre
Logical Fallacies
100

The goal of your project is to ____ your audience

what is "persuade"

100

_____ appeals to audiences through rational thinking, deductive reasoning, and/or factual evidence

what is logos? 

100

An intended or assumed consumer of a text

What is audience? 

100

This acronym represented the minimum requirement of elements you needed to discuss for each of your project 2 artifacts

What is SOAPStone? 

100

In this fallacy, one side distorts the other side's argument to make it easier to attack.

What is strawman? 

200

You will need to compose in three different _____

what is genres? 

200

____ appeals to an audience by evoking certain emotions–whether purposeful or not.

What is Pathos? 

200

The process in which you examine why someone said something the way they said it

What is Rhetorical Analysis

200

You decide to make a movie poster as one of your texts. The poster includes the title in large font, a big background image showing off your all-star cast, actor/director names in smaller font near the bottom, and the words "COMING SOON." These are ______ of movie posters

What is Genre Conventions?

200

Your girlfriend walks in on you playing League of Legends instead of working on your multigenre campaign. Disgusted, she says: "Either you get rid of that game, or you're going to flunk out of college."

What is the Either/Or fallacy (aka Black & White or False Dilema)?

300

You must appeal to at least 2 specific ____ in your texts

what is "audiences"

300

____ appeals to audiences through the speaker's background, knowledge, or character

What is Ethos? 
300

___ is the use of language to develop meaning and/or produce action. It's the specific way an author gets a point across

What is rhetoric?

300

For one of your texts, you want to create a series of tweets. When you try to write them, you find you have to shorten your messages because they exceed the 280 character limit. The character limit is a ______.

What is a constraint? 
300
I work in the sun all day, don't wear sunscreen, and have never gotten skin cancer, so being in the sun isn't actually bad for you. 
What is a hasty generalization or anecdotal fallacy? 
400

In this portion of your project, you will explain what you did and why you did it, and evaluate the effectiveness of your choices.

What is the rhetorical rationale?

400

_____ appeals to audiences through arguments made as a timely response to a another argument or some specific rhetorical situation.

What is kairos? 

400

The verbal attitude displayed by a rhetor, perceived by an audience

What is tone? 

400

___ is the result of a genre with one or more authors and is normally created with an intended audience.

What is text/artifact? 

400

The ethical fallacy that attacks the person instead of the argument 

What is Ad Hominem?

500

This is a great on-campus resource if you need help with digital design or access to design software.

What is the Digital Studio?

500

____ is a rhetorician’s goal within an argument (or text).

What is Telos/Purpose? 

500

____ is the driving factor urging a rhetorician to create a text.

What is Exigence? 

500

The way a text is delivered: internet, book, radio, etc. EX: the genre of a Tweet is delivered with the ____ of the internet

What is Medium? 

500

“The government must be conducting secret time travel research. The advanced technology they possess could only have come from the future.”

What is Circular Reasoning?