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

This is the process of breaking the whole into parts

What is analysis?

100

Pathos appeals to this

What are the audience's emotions?

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.

The Greek word for this translates to “the act of speaking a language” 

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

This rhetorical device repeats the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences, as in “We will study, we will succeed, we will graduate.”

What is anaphora?

200

Facts, Data, Reasons, Examples, Sensible Information and Idea are examples of this

What is Logos?

200

argument that a single action could lead to disastrous consequences. If Emiliano’s misses your business, they may go bankrupt.

What is slippery slope?

200

Rhetorical Analysis focuses 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

giving an inanimate object human traits or abilities

What is personification?

300

the presentation of a believable, authoritative voice that elicits an audience’s trust.

What is Ethos?

300

Exaggeration. Extreme exaggeration.

What is hyperbole?

300

To understand how an author might make a persuasive attempt, it helps to understand these things about the intended audience.

What are the audience's stance, values, interests, beliefs, and expectations?

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 personification, parallelism, repetition, rhetorical questions, and sensory language that writers and speakers use to emphasize points and unify a text.

What are literary devices or rhetorical strategies?

400

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

What is 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 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

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

What are Ethos, Logos, Pathos, Kairos?

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?