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5th Six Weeks Quiz Pt. 1

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  • Appealing to the audience’s sense of ethical behavior
    Ethos
  • Promising more than you can deliver
    Bogus Claims
  • Rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations
    Loaded Language
  • I love you more than life itself is an example of
    Hyperbole
  • Draws on the authority of widely respected people, institutions, and texts
    Appeals to False Authority
  • Logical fallacy of claiming that something is true because everyone believes it
    Bandwagon
  • Seriously Funny
    Oxymoron
  • The repetition of words at the beginning of a line is called
    Anaphora
  • An argument that assumes the very thing it is trying to prove is true
    Begging the Question
  • The repetition of words or phrases to build to a climax or add emphasis
    Repetition
  • Distortion of someone else's argument to make it easier to attack or refute
    Strawman
  • Appealing to readers’ emotions and feelings
    Pathos
  • Successive words, phrases, clauses expressed with the same or very similar grammatical structure
    Parallelism
  • Logical fallacy in which one event seems to be the cause of a later event because it occurred earlier
    Post Hoc
  • When the arguer attacks the person and not the argument
    Ad Hominem
  • Only two choices are offered when, really, others exist
    Either/or Fallacy
  • The repetition of words at the end of a line
    Epistrophe
  • The assumption that if two things are alike in one regard, they must be alike in other ways
    Faulty Analogy
  • He's in between jobs right now
    Euphemism
  • A brief reference to a famous person or event—often from literature, history, Greek myth, or the Bible is called
    Allusion
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