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Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 46mins
"As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results."
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
"The data is perfectly clear: this investment has consistently turned a profit year-over-year, even in spite of market declines in other areas."
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
"History has shown time and again that absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
"After years of this type of disrespect from your boss, countless hours wasted, birthdays missed… it's time that you took a stand."
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
"If my years as a Marine taught me anything, it's that caution is the best policy in this sort of situation."
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
"There's no price that can be placed on peace of mind. Our advanced security systems will protect the well-being of your family so that you can sleep soundly at night."
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
"Private demand for the product has tapered off for the past three years, and this year's sales figures are at an all-time low. It's time to research other options."
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
Which is the most dominant appeal is most clearly used here?
ethos
pathos
logos
none
What is the dominant appeal is used here?
ethos
pathos
logos
What is the rhetorical triangle (rhetorical situation)?
The situation people find themselves in when trying to understand a problem
An equilateral triangle that is used in mathematics
The context or set of circumstances our of which something arises
none of these answers
Which of the following make up the rhetorical situation? Choose all that apply.
Text, Media, Purpose, Reasoning
Audience, Culture/context, media, formatting
Message, Audience, Purpose, Culture/Context, and Writer
Culture/Context, formatting, writer, Text, Audience
Writer, Message, Audience, Medium
Message
What the speaker wants the audience to do after receiving the message
The speaker’s main idea or main argument
Persuasive techniques speakers use to try to convince their audience
A statement upon which an argument is based
Context
What the speaker wants the audience to do after receiving the message
The people, location, and time that influence a text
Broader person or group that has some connection to target audience
Ideas that people accept without any proof
Diction
feelings and ideas associated with a text
the dictionary definition of a word
author's word choice
Sentence structure
Tone
What the speaker wants the audience to do after receiving the message
The speaker’s attitude toward their subject
A statement upon which an argument is based
Persuasive techniques speakers use to try to convince their audience
Purpose
Feelings and ideas associated with a word
Persuasive techniques speakers use to try to convince their audience
What the speaker wants the audience to do after receiving the message
Appeal based on the credibility and trustworthiness of the speaker
Primary Audience
The target or intended audience
Broader person or group that has some connection to target audience
What the speaker wants the audience to do after receiving the message
The broadest and largest group that has no connection to the intended audience
What kind of bias is this?
Sensationalism
Photo
Selection and Omission
Placement and Feature
What kind of bias is this?
Photo
Source Control
Headline
Sensationalism
Which of these definition fit the Selection and omission bias?
The writer provides only one viewpoint or leaves things out.
The writer chooses to write anything they want.
A news outlet posting random stories.
A news outlet doing an interview of the republican and democrat presidential candidate.
You are reading a movie review and there it says "movie goers" all think it's bad. Which of the bias below fit this?
Headline
Placement and feature
Source control
Photo
What is credibility?
Whether something can be trusted
Being able to spot a fake
Being able to show bias
Moderately positive
Read the text and answer the question below:
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To the Editor:
When are the newspaper going to expose all these blasted insurance companies? My home insurance company just notified me that it is placing a $ 50 deductible on my policy because I had five claims in three years. All claims were the result of kids busting windows, painting my house red during Halloween, and such things.
Why have insurance if you’re not covered for such things? Why be penalized for something that isn’t your fault?
My car insurance has sky-rocketed in the past five years, despite the fact that I didn’t have one claim in years and years.
It’s interesting to note that my insurance agents no longer come to my home, as they did in the past. Instead, they always phone to give me the bad news. They don’t dare step into my house anymore probably for fear I might shoot one of them in cold blood.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE LETTER?
Talking about why the author likes to have insurance
criticizing the insurance agent
Getting insurance
Hoping to get an insurance break
Is the writer biased? How do you know?
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair is called
Bias
Disagreement
Civil Discourse
Agreement
Bias in the media can influence the reader to feel
positively towards an issue
negatively towards an issue
either positively or negatively toward
When the news calls someone who was in jail for a minor offense an "ex-con"
Bias through Placement
Bias by Headline
Bias through Names and Titles
Bias by statistics
Referring to someone's house as a "shack" would have a __________ connotation.
positive
negative
What is the intended target group for a message called, regardless of the medium?
Audience
Author's purpose
Bias
Claim
What term describes the reason an author writes about a particular topic?
Diction
Author's purpose
Evidence
Tone
What is an assertion, position, or arguable thesis about a topic or issue called?
Audience
Diction
Claim
Text structure
What is the term for specific details or facts that support an inference or idea?
Evidence
Bias
Thesis
Audience
What is a credible or believable source referred to as?
Text structure
Reliable source
Graphic features
Diction
What is the author's particular attitude, either stated or implied in writing, called?
Tone
Claim
Text evidence
Audience
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
Language that seeks to make one laugh at or mock the subject.
hyperbole
innuendo
truth surrogates
ridicule/sarcasm
Subjective Point of View is...
Information based on facts and data
Information based on the subjects you take in school.
Opinions based on personal feelings and bias
Objective Point of View is...
Information based on facts and data
Information based on the subjects you take in school.
Opinions based on personal feelings and bias
What is the best synonym for point of view?
opinion
fact
perspective
argument
Pizza with pineapple is delicious!
OBJECTIVE 📑
Subjective 👀
Cotton fabric is flammable.
OBJECTIVE 📑
Subjective 👀
Cotton is more beautiful than silk.
OBJECTIVE 📑
Subjective 👀
Tennis player Roger Federer has won 17 Grand Slam titles.
OBJECTIVE 📑
Subjective 👀
Roger Federer is the best tennis player the world has ever seen!
OBJECTIVE 📑
Subjective 👀
