Rhetoric

What is rhetoric?

• the art of effective persuasion

• research skills

• author's use of language

What is ethos?

• an appeal to ethics

• an appeal to emotions

• an appeal to logic

What is pathos?

• an appeal to ethics

• an appeal to emotions

• an appeal to logic

What is logos?

• an appeal to ethics

• an appeal to emotions

• an appeal to logic

When using ethos, you are building ____________?

• emotions

• trust

• knowledge

When using logos, you are using __________?

• emotions

• manipulation

• facts

Logic involves which of the following?

• emotions

• facts

• common sense

• reasoning

Who developed rhetoric?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Thucydides

• Aristotle

Which mode of persuasion is the weakest in terms of quality?

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

Which mode of persuasion is the strongest in terms of quality?

• ethos

• pathos

• logos