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Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Manipulative Appeals to Ethos

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This lesson focuses on the ways appeals to ethos can be manipulative including lying about their credentials and employing a number of tricks or fallacies to lure you to their point of view.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Additional Tags
ad hominem, ethos, establishes authority or credibility, fallacies, false authority, guilt by association, lumen: rhetorical appeals: manipulative appeals to ethos, manipulative appeals to ethos, poisoning the well, rhetorical appeals, recognizing persuasive techniques
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
Common Core
SL.9-10.3