chapter 2 review

Arguments that attempt to sway the opinions of people by compelling them to feel emotions such as pity, anger, fear, joy, peer pressure, intimidation

• appeals to emotion

• argumentum ad populum

• argumentum ad baculum

an argument that distracts by making the audience want to be part of the crowd of one of the "common" people.

• appeals to emotion

• argumentum ad populum

• snob appeal

argument that distracts by making the audience afraid of the consequences of disagreeing with the speaker.

• chronological snobbery

• mob appeal

• argumentum ad baculum

argument that distracts by making the audience feel sorry for the speaker or someone on behalf of whom the speaker is arguing.

• argumentum ad misericoridam

• snob appeal

• argumentum ad populum

argument that distracts by making a person want to feel "special". This is an emotional appeal to a sense of elitism or those of "discriminating taste"

• argumentum ad populum

• snob appeal

• argumentum ad verecundiam

argument that distracts by attempting to shame the listener into agreement by citing an illegimate authority.

• argumentum ad verecundiam

• snob appeal

• chronological snobbery

argument that distracts by making the audience want to either by part of an old tradition or part of the latest cool, new thing.

• ad baculum

• ad populum

• chronological snobbery

What are the 4 types of illegitimate authority?

It's time to take all of our money out of the stock market. This recession is going to cause prices to fall so dramatically we'll lose all of our wealth!

• ad hominem abusive

• appeal to fear

• mob appeal

Vote for Harkin, the champion of the working man

• appeal to fear

• snob appeal

• mob appeal