Rhetorics
it is an appeal to emotions and values.
What is pathos?
"Either you agree with me or you hate me."
What is a false dilemma?
Teddy Roosevelt created this political party.
What is the Progressive Party?
He was president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The idea of the people voting as a means of choosing leaders, policies, and more.
What is democracy?
Comparing two unlike things without using “like” or “as” to create a vivid image or idea.
What is a metaphor?
“Have you stopped beating your wife?”
What is a loaded question?
The number of US Justices of the US Supreme Court
What is 9?
The only president to have served four terms.
Who is FDR?
The legal system inherited from the British Empire.
What is common law?
"The peculiar institution" is an example of this.
What is meiosis?
"You asked me why the unemployment rate has risen again, but I'll tell you what's affecting this country's morale in even worse ways than that."
What is a red herring?
The president is elected by this institution.
What is the Electoral College?
The creator of the original "Make America Great Again" slogan
Who is Ronald Reagan?
It is a period in the US that came after the Gilded Age.
What is the Progressive Era?
It is an indirect remark about somebody or something, usually suggesting something bad, mean or rude.
What is an innuendo?
"If I give you a raise, then I have to give everyone a raise, and then the company will go bankrupt.”
What is a slippery slope?
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution are often named this.
What is the bill of rights?
The only US president who later went on to become a US Supreme Court Justice.
Who is William Taft?
A political approach that claims to champion the common person against a perceived elite.
What is populism?
It is insulting language used to express blame or censure.
What is invective?
"Alice: Smoking is associated with chronic health disorders. You shouldn't smoke.
Bob: But you smoke yourself. So much for your argument!"
what is whataboutism / Tu quoque?
It is the name given to unfair redistricting.
What is gerrymandering?
He is the only U.S. president to have resigned from office.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The heightened emotional energy that individuals feel when gathered together in shared ritual or belief.
What is collective effervescence?