Transcript Vocab 7

Rhetorical Fallacy – a “cheap trick” a speaker
makes when trying to persuade
• Instead of
presenting the
facts, they try
something else.
• In this case, they
say, “Trust me,
I’m a doctor!”
Ad Hominem - name calling! Attacking
the person instead of the issue.
Emotional Appeal – When someone tries to
persuade by messing with feelings (not facts)
• Come on, adopt a
puppy. Look at how
cute he is! THINK
OF WHAT WILL
HAPPEN TO HIM IF
YOU DON’T!
Commonplace assertion – an opinion that
most people share
• “It’s smart to dress up for job interviews.”
Policy – a
method or
procedure
Explicit – out in the open; very clear
•The artist is not
hiding the “bad
things” in the
song. He is
making it the
focus!
•The album explicitly talks about
inappropriate things.
•I explicitly told you to clean your room.
•What was the explicit message of the
speaker?
Implicit – hidden; hinted at
• He didn’t explicitly tell
me he did it, but his guilt
was implicit by the fact
that he was holding a bat
and ball by the broken
window.
All Summer in a Day
• The implicit
message was about
showing kindness
to others who are
different from you.
Explicit messages are
on the surface.
Implicit messages are
below the surface.
Expository – informational
Persuade – to convince someone that you are right.
Stereotype – prejudice (not always related to race);
an assumption about a group of people.