WorksheetsArgument and Persuasion
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
We should abolish the death penalty. Even Taylor Swift is opposed to it.
Hasty Generalization
Bandwagon
Straw Man
Appeal to Authority
My opponent is an untrustworthy liar and an idiot. Therefore, you should believe me.
Hasty Generalization
Circular Reasoning
Cherry-picking the evidence
Ad Hominem
40 million people can't be wrong! Buy the new Iphone XIV today!
Bandwagon
False dichotomy
Post hoc
Straw man
Families communicate less and less in the past forty years since feminism became mainstream. Feminism is to blame for this deterioration in the family.
ad hominem
appeals to emotion
faulty causality
bandwagon
I know you don’t like the kitty-cat sweater that Grandma knitted for you, but she worked so hard on it and it will make her happy to see you wear it in the family holiday photo.
bandwagon
hasty generalization
scare tactic
sentimental appeal
"They've worked against everything we've worked so hard to build, and they don't care who gets hurt in the process. Make no mistake, they're the enemy, and they won't stop until we're all destroyed."
logos
ethos
pathos
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery… We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut."
logos
ethos
pathos
"You know me - I've taught Sunday School at your church for years, babysat your children, and served as a playground director for many summers - so you know I can run your preschool."
logos
ethos
pathos
"You'll make the right decision because you have something that not many people do: you have heart."
logos
pathos
ethos
This form of rhetoric uses logic
logos
ethos
pathos
This form of rhetoric uses an expert or a celebrity
logos
pathos
ethos
This form of rhetoric uses an emotional appeal.
logos
ethos
pathos
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing is called
persuasion
arguing
rhetoric
complaining
What is the dominant appeal is used here?
ethos
pathos
logos
What is the dominant appeal is used here?
ethos
pathos
logos
Identify the device present in this example:
Throughout the play we are made to witness the force of sham politics to shape and shatter lives.
Alliteration
Imagery
Paradox
Satire
What would “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her" be an example of?
Allegory
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Allusion
Sam's mom screamed, "I told you a million times to pick up your room!' What is Sam's mom "using" to get her point across?
An Allegory
A Simile
Imagery
A Hyperbole
The confetti rained down from the sky creating a feeling of immense joy in all that stood below. What is this an example of?
Personification
Simile
Imagery
Hyperbole
What is “if it ain't broke, don't fix it" an example of?
Allusion
Anecdote
Aphorism
Anaphora
An anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Why do author's use this device?
An anaphora is used to appeal to the emotions of the audience, in order to persuade, inspire, motivate, and encourage them
An anaphora is used to appeal to the logic of the audience, in order to persuade, inspire, motivate, and encourage them.
An anaphora is used to appeal to the credibility of the speaker, in order to persuade, inspire, motivate, and encourage them.
An anaphora is used to sound really cool.
30 years later and teenagers are still addicted, but now to vaping and texting. 30 years later and parents are even less involved in teens' lives than they were. 30 years later and God has been taken out of the picture and replaced with materialism...
WHAT DEVICE and WHAT TONE?
hopeful tone through ethos
frustrated tone through anaphora
annoyed tone through bias
humorous tone through jokes
And we've come here from every crack, crease, and crevice of our country to our Capital to say that, for all those whose cares have been our concern, we're ready.
parallelism
repetition
antithesis
alliteration
pathos
logos
simile
allusion
the placing of opposite or contrasting ideas and/or words within the same sentence or very close together to emphasize their disparity.
antithesis
asyndeton
diction
polysyndeton
