Persuasive Techniques Quiz

Ethical appeal; convince the audience of character or credibility, prove worth listening to

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Rhetorical Question

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Emotional appeal; persuade audience by appealing to emotions; used with tone of voice, anecdotes, and moving examples

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Logical appeal; convince audience by reason or logic by citing stats or facts, using analogies, and having a reasonable argument

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Personal Pronouns

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Using questions that don’t need an answer, but get your audience thinking.

• Repetition

• Personal Pronouns

• Rhetorical Questions

• Emotive Language

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Repeating words or phrases so they stick in your audience’s mind long after heard.

• Criticize the Opposing View

• Repetition

• Emotive Language

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Using words that make people feel upset, sad, angry, guilty, or sympathetic.

• Pathos

• Logos

• Emotive Language

• Criticize the Opposition

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Using words like “we,” “you,” “us,” or “our” to make the audience think you are only talking to them

• Personal Pronouns

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Rhetorical Questions

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Point out, and destroy the opposing argument by invalidating them/their claims

• Logos

• Emotive Language

• Rhetorical Questions

• Criticize the Opposition

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

To inform, persuade, entertain, influence

• Purpose

• Audience

• Argument

• Persona

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

The thesis, message or main idea of the source

• Persona

• Argument

• Purpose

• Audience

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6