Rhetorical appeal

Question 1

What is rhetoric?

Answer 1

The art of persuasion

Question 2

What is the goal of persuasion?

Answer 2

To change others’ points of view or move others to take action

Question 3

At whom is the written work directed?

Answer 3

The audience

Question 4

What are the 3 elements of persuasion?

Answer 4

Ethos, pathos, logos

Question 5

What is ethos?

Answer 5

An appeal to the credibility of the speaker which helps build trustworthiness

Question 6

What is intrinsic ethos?

Answer 6

A type of ethos that is crated from within the text from style and tone, and the author’s treatment of differing viewpoints.

Question 7

What is extrinsic ethos?

Answer 7

An ethos that comes from outside the text.

Question 8

What is pathos?

Answer 8

An appeal to emotion which can be positive and negative.

Question 9

What is logos?

Answer 9

An appeal to logic and reasoning with includes sound facts, statistics, cause and effect, analogies, definitions.

Question 10

What is a rhetorical device?

Answer 10

A linguistic technique used to make language more memorable and persuasive

Question 11

What is a rhetorical question?

Answer 11

A question asked in a way in which no answer is expected or needed

Question 12

What is parallelism?

Answer 12

The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form.

Question 13

What is anaphera?

Answer 13

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive grammatical form

Question 14

What is connotative diction?

Answer 14

A writer’s choice of words because of the word’s association

Question 15

What is euphemism?

Answer 15

The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit

Question 16

What is imagery?

Answer 16

Painting pictures with words through the use of sensory language

Question 17

What is repetition?

Answer 17

The repetition of the same word of group of words

Question 18

What is a hyperbole?

Answer 18

Extreme exaggeration

Question 19

What is a simile?

Answer 19

Comparing two seemingly unlike things using like or as

Question 20

What is a metaphor?

Answer 20

A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two seemingly unlike things that actually have something important in common

Question 21

What is antithesis?

Answer 21

The juxtaposition of two opposite ideas to achieve a contrasting effect

Question 22

What is polysyndeton?

Answer 22

When several conjunctions are used to join clauses, phrases, or words in a place where they aren’t necessary

Question 23

What is asyndeton?

Answer 23

The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

Question 24

What is an allusion?

Answer 24

A brief usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event real or fictional

Question 25

What is an anecdote?

Answer 25

A short and interesting story taken from a person’s past experience - or that f someone they know or have heard about designed to create an emotional response

Question 26

What is tone?

Answer 26

A writer’s attitude toward the subject, audience, and self

Question 27

What does pigmace stand for?

Answer 27

P - Person
I - Intention 
G - Genre
M - Message
A - Audience 
C - Context
E - Exigence