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Rhetorical Devices
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10th Grade
01/29/2013

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Fallacies

Definition

Mistaken belief based a false arguement.

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Slippery Slope

Definition

Claiming that a chain reaction, usually ending badly, will take place, but there's not really enough evidence to support the claim.

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Appeal

Definition

When the speaker claims to be an expert or relies on information from experts (authority appeal), tries to affect the listeners feelings (emotional appeal), or tries to persuade the listener with deductive reasoning (logic appeal).

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Parallelism

Definition

Arranging words by putting them side by side and making them in similar form.

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Bias

Definition
Predjudice against or in favor of one thing, person, or group compared to another, usually in a way considered unfair.
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Arguement of Fact

Definition
attempting to prove the validity of a point of view or idea by presenting reasoned arguements.
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Sentimental Appeals

Definition
Use of emotion to distract audience. (Emotional appeals.)
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Hasty Generalzations

Definition
A faulty general idea based off of false information.
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Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc

Definition
Latin for: after this, therefore because of this. Arguement that something happens, then something else happens because of it.
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Claim

Definition
State that something is the case.
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Concession

Definition

Yeilding a fact or point in an arguement.

 

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Faulty Analogy

Definition
False comparison.
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Pathos

Definition
Audience's emotion.
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Inductive Knowledge

Definition
Principals determined by a number of general statments.
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Deductive Knowledge

Definition
Principals based on facts.
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Empirical Evidence

Definition
Source of knowledge gained by observations.
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Logical Evidence

Definition
Source of knowledge gained by actual facts.
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Anecdotal Evidence

Definition
Experience based knowledge.
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Ad Hominem

Definition
Latin for: to the man. When a claim or arguement is rejected becauseof some irrelevant fact.
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Culture

Definition
Quality of a person or society.
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Logical Fallacy

Definition
A flaw in an arguement that weakens it.
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Credible

Definition
Able to be believable.
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Grounds

Definition
Basis of arguement.
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Refutation (counterargument)

Definition
Other side (counter) of the arguement.
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Persuasion

Definition
Convincing someone in an arguement.
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Logos

Definition
Logic in an arguement.
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Bandwagon

Definition
Majority side.
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Rhetoric

Definition
Persuasive effect on the audience.
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Propaganda

Definition
Rumor spread deliberately spread to help or harm someone.
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Proposal

Definition
Suggest.
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Either/or fallacy

Definition
When one gives only two options.
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Antithesis

Definition
Counter-proposition.
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Litotes

Definition
Ironical understatement.
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Rebuttal

Definition
Contradiction.
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Equivocation

Definition
Evading a statement or question.
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Ethos

Definition
Ethics.
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Media

Definition
Means of communication.
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Euphemism

Definition
word or phrase that stands for another.
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Irony

Definition
a meaning opposite the word.
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Paradox

Definition
Statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true.
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Anaphora

Definition
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrase or clauses.
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