Persuasive Terms

A speaker uses the audience's emotions to influence them.

• Pity Party

• Logical Appeal

• Emotional Appeal

• Humor

A speaker uses the audience's sense of reason to persuade them.

• Reasonable Appeal

• Logical Appeal

• Spock Appeal

• Emotional Appeal

There is something wrong with the logic or the data someone uses to reach a conclusion.

• Insanity

• Sound Reasoning

• No Reasoning

• Faulty Reasoning

You should do this because everyone else is too.

• Overgeneralization

• Stereotype

• Statistics

• Bandwagon Appeal

Because this was true once, it will always be true.

• Overgeneralization

• Child Logic

• Assumption

• Bandwagon

Because one member of a group does this, every member of that group does it.

• Racism

• Logical Appeal

• Stereotype

• Emotional Appeal

A person/ source that cannot be trusted to tell the truth.

• A Liar

• Pinocchio

• Unreliable Source

• Unfounded Accusation

Which of the following is an UNethical practice when giving a persuasive speech?

• Telling the truth

• Relaying all the evidence

• Addressing both sides of the issue

• Only reporting the facts that support your side of the argument.

Who created the "Pyramid of Needs?"

• Maslow

• Laslow

• King Tut

• Ms. Hinson

What is at the very TOP of Maslow's Pyramid of Needs?

• Physical needs

• Self-Actualization

• Safety

• Belonging