Rhetorical Strategies
What is Rhetoric?
The ability to use language effectively for the purpose of informing, persuading, arguing and/or motivating.
What is Cause and Effect?
Just as Process Analysis asks “HOW?” Cause & Effect asks “WHY?”
What is Bandwagon?
Appealing to everyone’s sense of wanting to belong or be accepted.
What is Debate?
A debate is a kind of contest where you must support your argument and refute your opponent's argument with logical reasoning and rebuttals by giving facts and evidence. It’s about ideas… IT’S NOT PERSONAL!!
What is Logos?
The use of logic, rationality and critical reasoning to persuade.
What is Example?
Examples allow the reader to visualize the argument in a more general way than is being presented in the argument, ensuring that the rhetor can “show AND tell” the reader
What is Narration?
Narration is storytelling.
What is Oversimplification?
Oversimplifying or misrepresenting an argument to make it easier to attack or refute.
What is an Appeal?
In an APPEAL, the speaker is presenting only one side of a debate, with the assumption that the opposing view(s) will also be presented by others, then voted on by a panel who will determine the most correct position.
What are Pathos?
The use of emotion to affect and persuade, an appeal to the heart.
Compare and Contrast are Rhetorical Strategies. What is Compare and Contrast?
Comparisons examine similarities, such as through metaphor and analogy.
Contrasts examine differences.
What is Description?
Using description in rhetoric requires weaving sensory details into the argument so that the words are more than just ink on a page.
What is Circular thinking?
A type of reasoning in which the proposition is supported by the premises, which is supported by the proposition, creating a circle in reasoning where no useful information is being shared.
What is a Rebuttal?
A form of evidence that is presented to contradict or nullify other evidence that has been presented by an opposing party.
What are Ethos?
The ongoing establishment of the author’s authority, credibility and believability, which appeals to ethics and character.
What is classification?
By breaking down the whole into manageable and useful parts, a thinker can examine how each part relates to the others and then reach more reliable conclusions.
What is Diction?
The Words used.
What is Appeal to Pity?
The attempt to distract from the truth of the conclusion by making the audience feel sorry for the cause.
What is Process Analysis?
Writing that explains HOW, but goes beyond a list of steps to provide a informational narrative that has directional process.
What is Syntax?
The sentences used.
What is Appeal to Questionable Authority?
Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument.