Figures of speech
Fallacies
Miscellaneous-1
Miscellaneous-2
100

repetition of word/phrase at the beginning of a sentence

What is anaphora

100

personal attack 

what is ad hominem

100

Three basic ways of appealing to one's audience

What are ethos, pathos and logos

100

The name of the old Greek/Aristotelean model of argumenation

What is a syllogism

200

exaggeration

what is hyperbole

200

Simplistic design of opponent's views which is easy to argue against

What is straw man

200

Five basic aspects to keep in mind when performing a speech

What are speaker, situation, audience, topic and language

200

The name of the aspect in the Toulmin model in which you argue against yourself

What is rebuttal

300

A question that the speaker intends to answer him-/herself

What is rhetorical question

300

Creating a distracting, new argument

what is a red herring

300

Three basic types of speeches

What are political, informative and epideictic speeches

300

The name of the transaction in which the two speakers disagree on their rhetorical roles

What is crossed transaction

400

Reference to external event, person or item

what is allusion

400

Referring to some external person or institution that might substantiate a claim

what is appeal to authority

400
The two chambers of the American Congress

What are the house of representatives and the senate

400

The name of a chain of discourse in which is an established convention

what is hegemony/hegemonistic discourse

500

reference to something which the speaker claims not to refer to

what is apophasis

500

Presenting only two options with nothing in between

What is false dilemma

500

The name applied to the states in America in which republicans and democrates face a close race in the election.

what are swing states

500

The name of a discourse in which the nodal point is described with parallel words in allignment with each other

What is a chain of equivalence

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