Regents Week Fifteen Vocabulary

What is the term for the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing?

• Persuasive

• Rhetoric

• Claim

• Counterargument

Which term refers to a statement that asserts something to be true?

• Claim

• Concede

• Credible

• Fallacy

What is the term for tending to persuade or convince?

• Persuasive

• Logos

• Ethos

• Pathos

Which term involves admitting that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it?

• Counterargument

• Concede

• Rhetoric

• Logos

What is the appeal that convinces by the character of the author?

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Fallacy

Which appeal persuades through logical reasoning?

• Pathos

• Logos

• Credible

• Persuasive

What is the term for an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory?

• Fallacy

• Counterargument

• Claim

• Rhetoric

Which term refers to persuading through emotions?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Persuasive

• Fallacy

What is the term for a mistaken belief, especially one based on an unsound argument?

• Rhetoric

• Claim

• Fallacy

• Concede

Which term means able to be believed; convincing?

• Persuasive

• Credible

• Ethos

• Logos