Rhetoric & Propaganda
Across
- 1. love of country sells
- 3. needs marketing technique used to appeal to a person's fundamental desires
- 5. based on the concept that people like to be popular
- 7. bias making an argument or commercial appeal specifically to women or men
- 10. opinion
- 12. appeals to the audience's emotions
- 13. using humor to make a commercial, etc. stick in someone's head
- 15. generalization similar to stereotyping; deliberately vague so the audience makes its own interpretations
- 16. the art of effective persuasive speaking or writing
- 17. appeal idea that being part of an elite group helps it sell
Down
- 2. attempt to persuade using a famous person to endorse a product or idea
- 4. herring attempt to distract the reader with details not relevant to the argument
- 6. generalities people are drawn to products advertised as "new," "all-natural," etc.
- 8. persuading the audience by repeating a message over and over again
- 9. using an expert to appeal to the audience
- 11. calling also known as a personal attack; linking a person or idea to a negative word
- 14. appealing to the audience using logic; data; statistics
- 15. value making the audience feel uncomfortable, angry, etc. to make a point