Why Should the Audience Listen?
It is Appealing
Though Flawed
The Situation Changes
Try It
100

These are ways writers can establish credibility

What is Include credentials or personal experience, cite reliable sources?

100

The best timing possible. The most appropriate time to persuade.

What is Kairos?

100

logical fallacy that attempts to discredit a person, not an argument.

What is ad hominem?

100

the craft of persuading through writing or speaking.

What is rhetoric?

100

This logical fallacy relies on friends telling you that “everyone” is going to Emiliano’s, not only because the food is good but because it’s the place to be on a Thursday evening, hoping that others’ decisions might convince you.

What is bandwagon?

200
Pathos appeals to this

What are the audience's emotions?

200

Facts, Reasons, Examples, Sensible Information and Idea.

What is Logos?

200

logical fallacy that introduces a point about one thing that is likely to be accepted and then changes the terms once initial agreement occurs.

What is bait and switch?

200
Rhetorical Analysis focus more on this than it does on What a piece of writing is doing.

What is How is the writing doing it?

200

They add details and try to entice you with images of the pizza—a delicious, jeweled circle of brilliant color that tastes like heaven, with bubbling cheese calling out to you to devour it, using this rhetorical appeal.

What is pathos?

300

Including this establishes credibility, while increasing the likelihood that a hostile audience will accept the argument being made, and including it demonstrates that research is being done on all sides of an issue.

What is the opposition argument?

300

Believable, authoritative voice

What is Ethos?

300

Exaggeration. Extreme exaggeration.

What is hyperbole?

300

To understand how an attempt might be persuasive, it helps to understand

What are the audience's stance, values, beliefs?

300

Your friends try to convince you again, adding that the last time you didn’t join them, you went somewhere else and then got the flu, so you shouldn’t make the same mistake twice. They are using this type of logical fallacy

What is a causal fallacy?

400

Things such as parallelism, repetition, and rhetorical questions that writers and speakers use to emphasize points and unify a text.

What are literary devices?

400

These are the appeals (four of them) Aristotle focused on in breaking down persuasive attempts

What are ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos

400

It tries to make people do something or think a certain way because everyone is doing it, and if they don’t go along, they will be excluded.

What is bandwagon?

400
These are two type of rhetorical audiences

What are receptive and hostile?

400

Your friends say that if you don't go with them to get pizza at Emiliano's it's because you don't know what good pizza is, using this logical fallacy attempting to persuade you.

What is ad hominem?

500

These 7 elements make up the rhetorical situation

What are the author (who), message (what), readers (to whom), purpose (why), means (how), context (where and when), and culture (community)?

500

This is how the appeals work most effectively

What is when they are woven together to enhance and amplify?

500

the faulty logic of claiming or believing that an event that follows another event is the result of it.  

What is causal fallacy?

500
This is a good time to present your thesis later in an essay

What is when writing to a hostile audience?

500

Finally, they try an extreme last-ditch accusation. They claim you could be hostile to immigrants such as Emiliano and his Haitian and Dominican staff, who are trying to succeed in the competitive pizza market, so your unwillingness to go will hurt their chances of making a living., using this logical fallacy.

What is slippery slope?