Chapters 6
This type of question resembles a fixed-alternative, but allows more leeway in responding.
Scale Question
This device compares things using "like" or "as."
Simile
How far is it from Los Angeles to Singapore? This is an example of what kind of question?
A question of fact
Competence
A type of example that usually is constructed of a brief story that relates to a general principle.
Hypothetical Example
To whom am I speaking?
What do I want them to know, believe, or do as a result of my speech?
What is the most effective way of composing and presenting my speech to accomplish that aim?
These questions all examples of what kind of thinking?
Audience-centered
This type of device compares without using "like" or "as."
Metaphor
Is solitary confinement morally justifiable? What kind of question is this?
This type of credibility is the credibility of the speaker produced by everything she or he says and does during the speech itself.
Derived credibility
This type of example is often called a narrative, illustration, or anecdote.
Extended Example
To create an oversimplified image of a particular group of people, usually assuming that all members of the group are alike is called . . .
Stereotyping
This type of device juxtaposes contrasting ideas usually in parallel structure.
Antithesis
To persuade my audience that the U.S. patent system should be overhauled so as to promote innovation. For what type of agreement is this SPS crafted?
Passive Agreement
This type of reasoning progresses from a number of particular facts to a general conclusion.
This type of testimony is from people like ourselves.
Peer testimony
This type of question gives the maximum leeway for the respondent.
Open-ended question
A trite or overused expression.
A cliché
Which type of order looks the benefits of two things and ultimately decides in favor of one?
Comparative advantage order
The governor must be correct in his approach to social policy, after all, the polls show that 60 percent of people support him. This is an example of what kind of fallacy?
Bandwagon
The middle figure in a group once the figures are put in order from highest to lowest.
Median
The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own value, beliefs, and well-being is called what?
Egocentrism
This type of meaning is precise, literal, and objective.
True or False. Satisfaction is the third step of Monroe's Motivated Sequence.
True
The fallacy of false cause is know by its Latin name . . .
post hoc, ergo propter hoc
The number that occurs most frequently in a group of numbers.
Mode