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JC Lit Terms 2
These are Lit terms for Julius Caesar. These are specific to Antony's speech.
Question | Answer |
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Speaker (NF) | The persona or entity which is delivering the rhetorical message. |
Intended Audience (NF) | the recipient person or group of the rhetorical message. The features of the intended audience will affect the content of the message. |
Genre (NF) | The type of rhetorical message. In this case, it is a speech by Mark Antony. |
Content (NF) | The appeals to the audience and what is included in the rhetorical message. |
Ethos/Ethical Appeals (NF) | An appeal to the audience in which the speaker uses their personal character and beliefs to guide actions and to persuade. |
Logos/Logical Appeals (NF) | An appeal to the audience in which the speaker persuades using clear logical reasoning, support, evidence, and claims. |
Pathos/Emotional Appeals (NF) | An appeal to the audience which uses emotions to persuade the intended audience. |
Logical Fallacy (NF) | A rhetorical message which seems to be logical but is not provable or considered "cogent." |
Cogent (NF) | The feature of an argument in which all of the logical statements link together and prove the argument: "All terriers are dogs; all dogs are mammals; therefore all terriers are mammals." |
Either/Or Fallacy (NF) | False reasoning in which a speaker presents only two possible outcomes to a situation when the situation has more than two outcomes: "you are either with us or you are against us." |
Glittering Generalities Fallacy (NF) | A fallacy in which the speaker presents positive images and ideas, etc. with their argument that are not actually associated with the argument itself: "The Patriotic Act." |
Non-Sequitor Fallacy (NF) | From Latin, "Does not follow." This argument usually starts with some statement A and a conclusion of D with no actual proof of the relationship between argument A and conclusion D. A therefore B, B therefore C, A therefore D? not cogent. |
Non-sequitor fallacy "Conspirator's Example" (NF) | "Caesar had about 20 years to live if we had not killed him." "And he would have spent 20 years fearing death." "Therefore we are his friends because we spared him 20 years of fearing death." (Caesar did not fear death...he even says so) |