Persuasive Techniques and Rhetorical Fallacies

Appeal to logic, including facts and statistics

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Repeating a sentence structure

• simile

• parallelism

• allusion

• logos

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Appeals to emotion

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Using a speaker's credibility (i.e. celebrity/expert endorsement) to persuade others

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The phrase, "Almost everyone that was asked said that McDonalds is better than Burger King, so it must be true," represents which fallacy?

• The Bandwagon Fallacy

• Circular Reasoning

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

Mistakes in reasoning are called_________.

• logical fallacies

• logical lapses

• rhetorical devices

• reasoning issues

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A logical fallacy that tries to prove an argument...with its own argument.

• circular reasoning

• bandwagon appeal

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

Words or phrases said over and over to illustrate importance or highlight meaning are usually examples of...

• Rhetorical Questions

• Simile

• Repetition

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• Anecdote

• Simile

• Rhetorical Question

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer. It's just asked to make a point.

• allusion

• repetition

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4