Rhetorical Appeals

The appeal that is concerned with the author/speaker's credibility.

• Authority

  Ethos

• Emotion

  Pathos

• Logic

  Logos

The appeal that is concerned with the audience's feelings.

• Authority

  Ethos

• Emotions

  Pathos

• Logic

  Logos

The appeal that proves to the audience the argument makes sense.

• Authority

  Ethos

• Emotions

  Pathos

• Logic

  Logos

Which appeal does the follow quote MOST represent?

"That determination of ours, extending over all these years, was proved, for example, during the quarter century of wars following the French Revolution."

• Authority

• Emotion

• Logic

Answer explanation

Historical facts can be used as supporting evidence, which makes a logical appeal.

Which appeal does the follow quote MOST represent?

"But, as time went on, the American people began to visualize what the downfall of democratic nations might mean to our own democracy."

• Authority

• Emotion

• Logic

Answer explanation

Words with strong connotations (democracy, downfall) create an emotional appeal.

Which appeal does the follow quote MOST represent?

"The American people have unalterably set their faces against that tyranny."

• Authority

• Emotion

• Logic

Answer explanation

Words with strong connotations (tyranny) create an emotional appeal.

Which appeal does the follow quote MOST represent?

"As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be softheaded."

• Authority

• Emotion

• Logic

Answer explanation

Words with strong connotations (pride, softhearted, softeheaded) create an emotional appeal.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world—assailed either by arms, or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who seek to destroy unity and promote discord in nations that are still at peace."

• Authority

• Emotion

• Logic

Answer explanation

Words with strong connotation (assailed, poisonous, propaganda, destroy unity) create an emotional appeal.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"Therefore, as your President, performing my constitutional duty to “give to the Congress information of the state of the Union,” I find it, unhappily, necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders."

• Authority

• Emotion

• Logic

Answer explanation

When speaker's use their titles and privileged powers it reminds their audience of their authority/credibility.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe and Asia and Africa and Australasia will be dominated by conquerors."

• Authority

• Emotion

• Logic

Answer explanation

When speaker's use evidence to make an inference, they make a logical appeal. "If ___ is happening now, then we can guess ___ will happen in the future."