Persuasive Techniques and Rhetorical Fallacies

Appeal to logic, including facts and statistics

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Repeating a sentence structure

• simile

• parallelism

• allusion

• logos

Appeals to emotion

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

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

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

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

Mistakes in reasoning are called_________.

• logical fallacies

• logical lapses

• rhetorical devices

• reasoning issues

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

• circular reasoning

• bandwagon appeal

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

• Rhetorical Questions

• Simile

• Repetition

• Allusion

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

• Anecdote

• Simile

• Rhetorical Question

• Metaphor

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

• allusion

• repetition

• rhetorical question

• parallelism