Persuasive Techniques
Ethos, Pathos, or Logos
Speech and Essay Structure
Name the Speaker
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100
When a speaker repeats the same word or phrase to stress its importance.
What is REPETITION
100
Appeal to logic, reasoning, or facts
What is logos
100
The introduction is shaped like a...?
What is inverted triangle
100
"Good morning my darling Snowflakes!"
Who is Miss Snowden
100
Writer of The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream
Who William Shakespeare
200
Word choice to evoke emotion in the audience
What is EMOTIVE LANGUAGE
200
Appeal to credibility, use of a celebrity or professional
What is ethos
200
What food is the body paragraph modeled after?
What is cheeseburger
200
"We are going to make America great again!"
Who is Donald Trump
200
A type of figurative language that includes an exaggeration
What is a hyperbole
300
Would you want a life of poverty and loneliness or would you like to be successful?
What is rhetorical question
300
Appeal to emotions
What is pathos
300
What must a body paragraph include?
What is a topic sentence, evidence (quote), explanation, and concluding sentence.
300
“I don’t care what they’re going to say. Let the storm rage on. The cold never bothered me anyway.”
Who is Elsa
300
The problems the characters deal with or an obstacle they must overcome. This can be internal (the character struggles with inside emotions) or external (the character struggles with events or other people outside.
What is conflict
400
57% of people in the world believe in the existence of aliens.
What is statistics
400
"As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results."
What is ethos
400
Should school uniforms be required? Some parents and educators say that uniforms help students focus on academics instead of fashion. Others believe that kids should have the freedom to choose what they wear to school. After considering both sides of the issue, I strongly believe that uniforms should not be required in school because uniforms interfere with self-expression and cause more detentions.
What is an introduction paragraph
400
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
400
The plot of these novels typically involves people who become involved in complex and oftentimes evil paranormal schemes
What is Gothic literature
500
"When I was a child, I loved playing with barbie dolls. I even had the Spice Girls barbies..."
What is an anecdote
500
"If we don’t move soon, we’re all going to die! Can’t you see how dangerous it would be to stay?"
What is pathos
500
When having a discussion about school uniforms, many people bring up the fact that having school uniforms decrease bullying. This is an extremely valid point because we should consider the safety of all our students; however, no matter what you dress students in, they will always find ways to pass judgement on one another. Instead, they may turn to judging someone’s hairstyle, height, or weight.
What is Counterargument
500
"We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
Who is Winston Churchill
500
During the poetry unit, you read and compared these two poems
What is 'Half-Caste' and 'The Class Game'