Rhetorical Slant

Using words or phrases that make someone look less important 

• Downplayer
• Dysphemis
• Hyperbole
• Innuendo

When an opinion is stated as if it were a fact, which it is not, and uses biased language

• Slanters

• Rhetorical Analogy

• Rhetorical Explanation

• Rhetorical Definition

The use of language to IMPLY something without actually saying it (reading between the lines)

• Innuendo

• Sarcasm

• Hyperbole

• Slanter

Use of comparing how two unlike things can be the same

• Truth Surrogate
• Rhetorical Definition
• Rhetorical Analogy
• Rhetorical Explanation

Hinting that proof exists to support what you are saying but never actually citing that proof (e.g. "Studies show...")

• Slanter

• Truth Surrogates

• Ridicule

• Dysphemism

blaming or exaggerating someone's argument or another organization to prove a point

• truth surrogate

• straw man

• slippery slope

• sarcasm

comparing two things that are not really the same; sometimes doesn't make sense to compare them

• rhetorical analogy

• faulty analogy

• sarcasm

• truth surrogate

saying one small event will cause worse events to happen

• straw man

• slippery slope

• rhetorical definition

• downplayers

extremely exaggerating facts; saying something is way worse or way better than it actually is

• hyperbole

• innuendo

• sarcasm

• straw man

Her speech was written as sloppily as a second grader's homework.

• rhetorical analogy

• slippery slope

• truth surrogates

• hyperbole