Rhetorical Roots
This is a sentence that uses contrasting or opposing ideas to create emphasis
What is antithesis?
These are gestures that control the flow of conversation in small groups
What are regulators?
These are numbers that are used to show relationships between items.
What are statistics?
Emotional appeals are also referred to as this.
What is pathos?
This Boolean operator is used to narrow search results.
What is AND?
This figure of speech uses the repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning of words.
What is assonance?
Varying volume, pitch, emphasis, rate, and pauses in a natural manner is known as this.
What is vocal variety?
Rarely will listeners accept your statements without this.
What is proof?
This type of speech is about influence, not coercion.
What is persuasion? (or persuasive speech)
The goal of your speech is to move the audience to spay or neuter pet cats. What type of speech is this?
What is a speech to actuate?
When a word imitates the sound it represents, like “The buzz of a bee,” it’s an example of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
These behaviors increase connection and engagement between the speaker and the audience.
What are immediacy behaviors?
If you cite a direct quote from someone who is a known leader on your topic, then you are using this.
What is expert opinion?
When fewer people agree with you at the end of the speech than at the beginning of the speech, it is referred to as this.
What is the boomerang effect?
Which of the following is NOT an element of ethos?
Trustworthiness, Competency, Bias, Dynamism
What is bias?
A question designed to make the audience think—and for which no answer is expected—is known as what type of question?
What is a rhetorical question?
This type of speech is prepared by turning the preparation outline into note cards.
What is an extemporaneous speech?
This is the term used when a hypothetical illustration “rings true.”
What is fidelity?
This is an argumentative model that focuses on the structure of arguments by breaking them down into components like claim, evidence, and warrant.
What is a Toulmin argument
This principle refers to placing related words and images near each other.
What is the contiguity principle?
In Orator, Cicero describes these three rhetorical styles.
What are plain, middle, and grand?
This depends less on logical proof and more on the listener’s perception of the speaker.
What is credibility?
Which of the following does NOT need a citation?
Statistics, Quotations, Paraphrases, Hypothetical Instances
What are hypothetical instances?
This refers to a flaw in reasoning that weakens an argument.
What is a logical fallacy?
This principle suggests that words and pictures are better than words alone.
What is the multimedia principle?