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Using body language, persona and voice to be convincing.
What is "ethos"?
Asking a question that one does not want or need anyone to answer. Example: "what can be more fun that rolling around town in this beauty?"
What is "rhetorical question"?
Using facts, statistics and/or logical reasoning to be convincing.
What is "logos"?
Who is "Martin Luther King"?
Appealing to emotion, using emotive words or telling emotional stories to be convincing.
What is "pathos"?
Saying two or more words in a row (or words close together) beginning with the same letter. Example: "Finest fighting force"
What is "alliteration"?
Repeating of a word or a phrase. Example: "I have a dream"
What is "anaphora"?
Comparing two things without using "as" or "like", expressing implied meaning. Example: "He is a rat"
What is "metaphor"?
Exaggerating. Example: "You have heard of these problems a gazillion times".
What is "hyperbole"?
Letting the audience reflect a few seconds upon what has just been said.
What is "rhetorical pause"?
Putting three words or phrases together which have the same lenght, structure or rhythm. Example: "he has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe".
What is "tricolon"?
Contrasting to make a point. Example: "speech is silver, but silence is gold"
What is "antithesis"?
Comparing by using the words "like" or "as". Example: "He is like a penguin, slow on land but fast on water"
What is "simile"?
The person who came up with ethos, pathos and logos thousands of years ago.
Who is "Aristotle"?
Making an understatement, using irony or using a figure of speech. Example: "That may not be the smartest way of doing it.." or "They don't seem like the happiest couple around"
What is "litotes"?
A logical fallacy. Misrepresenting someone's argument in order to more easily attack it.
A logical fallacy. If we allow A to happen, then Z will also happen. That is why we should not let A happen.
What is "slippery slope"?
A logical fallacy. Attacking someone's character or personal traits instead of responding to their arguments.
What is "ad hominem"?
A logical fallacy. Pointing out false causation. Example: both ice cream sales and drowning accidents peak in June. Therefore, statistics say, eating ice cream leads to drowning!
What is "false cause"?
Tie-breaker! A form of language used by a socioeconomic class, a profession, an age group or other social group.
What is "sociolect"?