Define It
Draw It
Entertaining Examples
Act It Out
Entertaining Non Examples
100
Break
What is "To make it to the final round at a tournament."
100
Drop
What is "When you don't directly argue against an argument made by your opponent."
100
Duo Interpretation
What is "Where a published story is interpreted and performed by a partnership in a dramatic or a humorous way."
100
Delivery
What is "When you perform a speech you should make eye contact with the audience, use hand gestures, smile, etc.
100
Storytelling
What is "When you retell a published story using voices and pantomime to enhance it. Performer may stand or sit during performance."
200
Prose
What is "When a performer chooses a published story and interprets it using voices and gestures. Performer uses a black binder to read story from."
200
Sign Posting
What is "Giving the listeners an idea of where you're going in your speech. For example: first I'll talk about....,then...., and finally...."
200
Contention
What is "Major arguments/points."
200
Maverick
What is "When a policy debater has to debate on their own."
200
Values
What is "what is right or wrong as decided by a society."
300
Stock Issues
What is "A word to reference significance, harms, inherency, topicality, and solvency all at once.
300
Logos
What is "Logic in persuasive writing."
300
Rebuttal
What is "Arguing against your opponent's main points."
300
Paradigm
What is "What a judge favors when judging."
300
Status Quo
What is "The way things are."
400
Pathos
What is "Emotional connection in persuasive writing."
400
Expository
What is "A 6-8 minute speech where you can use props and you inform/describe/explain about a topic."
400
Lincoln-Douglas
What is, "One-on-one debate where you argue the morals and values of a given topic."
400
Declamation
What is "Performing a speech someone else previously gave in public using your own added gestures/voices/facial expressions."
400
Ethos
What is "Credibility in persuasive writing."
500
Inherency
What is "Why the problem is not going away on its own."
500
Solvency
What is "How the plan specifically fixes the harms."
500
Topicality
What is "Whether or not the plan talks about the resolution (topic) exactly as it is worded."
500
Harms
What is "Something bad that happens because of the position that the aff or neg takes."
500
Significance
What is "Why the topic is significant enough to spend all the time/effort debating."
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