Rhetorical Devices
A comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”
What is a Simile?
This satirical technique imitates the style of some person, place, or thing in order to ridicule the original.
What is Parody?
This type of reasoning starts out with a general statement and examines the possibilities to reach a specific, logical conclusion.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
A conclusion, or a claim, that is based on insufficient evidence.
What is a Hasty Generalization?
This is an appeal to Ethics and Credibility
What is Ethos?
A brief reference to a real or fictitious person, place, event, or work of art.
What is an Allusion?
This satirical technique presents things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to their surroundings.
What is Incongruity?
This type of reasoning makes broad generalizations from specific observations.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
An attack on the person, or the character of the person, rather than their arguments or opinions.
What is an Ad Hominem?
The second "S" in SOAPSTone stands for this.
What is "Subject?"
The intentional use of words that sound like their meaning.
What is Onomatopoeia?
This technique is the exaggeration of a physical feature or trait.
What is Caricature?
This is a reason offered as support for another claim.
What is a Premise?
When someone oversimplifies or misrepresents another person’s argument in order to make it easier to attack
What is a Straw Man argument?
This Greek philosopher is considered the "father of rhetoric."
Who is Aristotle?
This is an artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed; it is the figurative use of a word.
What is a Trope?
This type of satire playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humor.
What is Horatian Satire?
An argument whose premises genuinely support its conclusion is considered this.
What is Valid?
This fallacy occurs when a person argues that an event will inevitably happen without providing any examples that this may happen
What is a Slippery Slope?
This shapely trio is made up of three persuasive strategies, also known as rhetorical appeals.
What is the Rhetorical Triangle?
A literary technique that uses conjunctions in repeated succession -oftentimes with no commas.
What is Polysyndeton?
This type of satire addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule.
What is Juvenalian Satire?
This refers to an argument that has at least one false premise.
What is Unsound?
When we make the incorrect assumption that two things related to a third thing are related to each other
What is the Undistributed Middle fallacy?
"Socrates is a human. All humans are mortal. Therefore, Socrates is a cat."
The example above contains THIS logical fallacy.
What is a Non Sequitur?