Persuasive Speeches (Approaches)

Poll

Are you ready for today's class?

Multiple Choice

People use persuasive language to ________.

• teach someone how to do something

• convince someone to act or agree

• encourage someone who's feeling down

• paint a picture with words

Multiple Choice

This term refers to an argument that appeals to logic

• Logos
• Ethos
• Pathos
• Rhetorical Fallacy

Multiple Choice

This term refers to an argument that appeals to one's emotions

• Logos
• Pathos
• Ethos

Multiple Choice

Which argument would present their presentation with words like devastating, horrible, and awful?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

Multiple Choice

Which argument would present the audience with statistics and numbers to convince them to change their point of view?

• Pathos
• Logos
• Ethos

Multiple Select

Which persuasive technique is used in the following argument? (only pick one answer)

Textbooks are outdated and ought to be replaced by tablet computers. Tablets have multiple uses, are interactive and students find them more engaging. Also, tablets are much lighter than a stack of textbooks.

• ethos (appeals to authority & credibility)

• pathos (appeals to emotion)

• logos (appeals to reason)

Poll

Do you understand now what persuasion is?