Persuasive devices Flashcards
appeals
to the audience’s
- emotions
- fears
- desire to seem intelligent
- to fit in
- to follow tradition
- to be wealthy
- pride in country
- to be healthy
evidence
makes the reader see author as knowledgeable and the agrument as more logical or reliable
attacks
on opposing views, oe people who hold them.. portrays views and beliefs contrary to the author’s as unreliable, foolish, dangerous, uncaring, detrimental, or deceitful.
inclusive and exclusive language
we our us
- sense of solidarity
them they
- isolating
rhetorical question
do not require an answer, obvious , encourage audience to consider audience’s answer…. anyone in disagreeance is foolish.
cause and effect
arguments may claim there is a cause and effect relationship