AP Language Rhetorical Terms Flashcards

7241408214	logos	appeals to reason	0
7241411698	pathos	appeals to emotions	1
7241416696	ethos	appeals exerted by the character of the speaker	2
7241417859	anecdote	a short account of something	3
7241418757	argument by analogy	by arguing the assumption of a relationship between two dissimilar things applies, one implies the feelings, needs, or fate of one will logically apply to both	4
7241422433	appeal to authority	citing a person who is qualified to give an opinion	5
7241423726	cause and effect	argument that one event brings about another	6
7241427567	anaphora	emphasizing words by repeating them at the beginnings of neighboring clauses	7
7241428470	aphorism	a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words	8
7241430630	brand	a mixture of attributes, tangible and intangible, symbolized in a trademark that can create value and influence	9
7241441259	syllogism	a form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them; a form of deductive reasoning	10
7241446532	enthymeme	a syllogism that omits the minor premise because it is assumed to be understood	11
7241449790	deduction (deductive reasoning)	a form of reasoning that begins with a generalization then applies the generalization to a specific case or cases	12
7241453018	induction (inductive reasoning)	a form of reasoning which works from a body of fact to the formulation of a generalization	13
7241456538	red herring	a fallacy when irrelevant material is introduced to the issue being discussed	14
7241458580	ad hominem	a fallacy of logic in which a person's character or motive is attacked instead of that person's argument	15
7241461474	over generalization	a fallacy in which the author draws too general of a conclusion from the presented information or arguments	16
7241474381	damning with faint praise	intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication	17
7241475268	begging the question	fallacy of logical argument that assumes the reader will automatically accept an assertion without proper support	18
7241477581	circular reasoning	a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove	19
7241480706	false cause and effect	a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove	20
7241483899	dogmatism	a rhetorical device in which the speaker implies that there are no arguments to be made	21
7241485546	bandwagon appeal	a proposition is argued to be true because it is widely held to be true	22
7241487005	argumentum ad antiquatum	asserting that something is right or good simply because it is old	23
7241489427	scare tactics	a rhetorical device that appeals to horrible consequences which may or may not come to pass	24
7241490941	false dilemma	a fallacy of logical argument which is committed when too few of the available alternatives are considered, and all but one are assessed and deemed impossible or unacceptable	25
7241494350	appeal to false authority	citing a person who may not be qualified to give an opinion	26
7241496096	slippery slope	a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question	27
7241498084	straw man	a person substitutes a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of a position and attacks that version	28
7241500616	false equivalent	to make one action equal to another when they really aren't	29