WorksheetsRhetoric
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 19mins
"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
"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
Ethos:
Refers to emotions
Refers to credibility, character, and ethics
Refers to logic
A certified nutritionist would have ethos when speaking at a health food convention.
True
False
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
Context
The time, place, and occasion of the text
The goal the writer wants to achieve or accomplish with the text.
The Spark that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers to create texts
The listener, viewer, or reader of a text.
Subject
Audience
Claim
Analogy
The writer's position on an issue or problem which is supported by evidence.
Topic
Claim
Theme
Purpose
this encompasses the speaker, audience, message, context, exigence, and all the surrounding factors that go into achieving a purpose.
exigence
audience
rhetorical situation
message
What is the conclusion that you can infer from these two premises below:
All tigers are cat
All cats are animals
Therefore .................................
Cat are tigers
Animals are cats
All tigers are animals
Cat are tigers
All nerds are smart
Smart people makes more money
Therefore .................................................
All nerds makes more money
Nerds are smart people
Money is with smart people
Smart people are rich nerds
No lazy person passes exams.
Abu just pass his exam.
Therefore ......................................................
Passes exams is not for lazy person
Abu does not pass his exam
Abu is not a lazy person.
Abu is lazy
All birds have wings
No humans have wings
Thus ..........................................
Birds and humans have wings
No humans are birds.
birds are humans
Birds and humans are different
Fasting will help you to loose weight
I am fasting
Therefore I.........................................
Fasting helps in losing weight
I am fasting to loose weight
I will loose weight
I am fasting
There is a lot of commotion regarding saving the environment. We cannot make this world an Eden. What will happen if it does become Eden? Adam and Eve got bored there!
red herring
moral equivalence
non sequitur
straw man
Mother: It’s bedtime Jane Jane: Mom, how do ants feed their babies? Mother: Don’t know dear, close your eyes now. Jane: But mama, do ant babies cry when they’re hungry?
straw man
non sequitur
red herring
hasty generalization
Al Gore feels that all companies are irresponsible and should be punished for allowing emissions which causes global warming.
straw man
red herring
slippery slope
either/or (black/white) (binary)
It is warmer this year in Las Vegas as compared to last year; therefore, global warming is rapidly accelerating.
slippery slope
red herring
circular reasoning
hasty generalization
We either ban hairspray or the world will end.
slippery slope
non sequitur
either/or (black/white) (binary)
moral equivalence
We cannot listen to John’s opinion on global warming because he is a tree hugger.
ad hominem
circular reasoning
straw man
red herring
The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.
ad hominem
moral equivalence
non sequitur
circular reasoning
"Because everybody thinks this way, it must be right."
hasty generalization
circular reasoning
guilt by association
bandwagon fallacy
Which fallacy is pictured?
Straw Man
Ad Hominem
Red Herring
Bandwagon
“President Kumail raised taxes, and then the rate of violent crime went up. Kumail is responsible for the rise in crime.”
Either/Or
Post Hoc
Slippery Slope
