Rhetorical Appeals
This rhetorical appeal is based on the speaker or author.
What is ethos?
The repetition of a phrase for emphasis.
What is Anaphora?
When we assume that because one event follows another in time, the first event caused the second.
What is Post hoc Ergo Propter hoc or Faulty Cause and Effect?
Great Depression, jumbo shrimp, only choice are examples of this rhetorical device.
What is Oxymoron?
"You can either go with me to the party tonight or sit at home alone and be bored all night.”
What is False Dilemma?
This rhetorical appeal addresses how the text makes the audience feel.
What is Pathos?
The placing of two things closely together to emphasize the comparisons or contrasts.
What is Juxtaposition?
This logical fallacy is also known as a sweeping generalization.
What is Dicto Simpliciter or Hasty Generalization?
Dark and light, life and death, beauty and ugliness, poverty and wealth are all examples of this rhetorical device.
What is Juxtaposition?
The new Valley High School parking lot rules should be repealed.
What is Begging the Question?
A type of rhetorical appeal that is an effective argumentative and persuasive strategy because when the audience believes that the author is knowledgeable.
What is ethos?
A similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
This logical fallacy can be translated to mean "It doesn't follow."
What is Non Sequiter?
“We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air…” is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is Anaphora- will also accept parallel structure?
Macbeth cannot be killed by any man of woman born.
Equivocation
This rhetorical appeal asks the question is the author/speaker’s evidence relevant?
What is logos?
The purposeful omission of words by which the meaning is still clear because of the context.
What is Asyndeton?
This logical fallacy occurs when the writer attacks the opponent’s character rather than addressing the opponent’s argument.
What is Argumentum ad Hominem or Personal Attack?
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.” is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is Antithesis?
70% of all Americans support restrictions on access to guns.
What is Argumentum ad Numerum or Misuse of Statistics?
The following quote is an example of this type of rhetorical appeal, "...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain…”
What is pathos?
A contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of each other.
What is Antithesis?
This logical fallacy is a trick of language.
What is equivocation?
“So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” is an example of this rhetorical device.
If I am in Nashville, then I am in Tennessee; therefore, if I am in Tennessee, I must be in Nashville.
What is Non Sequitur.