Argumentative Writing Terms Quiz

persuasive strategies used in arguments to support claims

• logical fallacies

• rhetorical appeals

• pathos

• logos

uses logic and reasoning (facts, statistics, examples)

• logos

• pathos

• relevant

• sufficient

appeals to feelings (emotional language, basic values)

• logos

• direct quotation

• pathos

• paraphrasing

errors in reasoning that are not based on fact

• diction

• rhetorical appeals

• claim

• logical fallacies

closely connected to the matter at hand

• diction

• relevant

• rhetorical appeals

• sufficient

enough for the purpose of supporting a claim or reason

• sufficient

• relevant

• hook

• logical fallacies

word for word quotes from the source

• paraphrasing

• claim

• direct quotation

• diction

putting a passage from source material into your own words while maintaining its meaning

• direct quotation

• paraphrasing

• hook

• pathos

a position or opinion on a topic

• hook

• pathos

• logos

• claim

opening statement in an essay that grabs the reader's attention

• hook

• claim

• diction

• logical fallacies