Figures of speech
repetition of word/phrase at the beginning of a sentence
What is anaphora
personal attack
what is ad hominem
Three basic ways of appealing to one's audience
What are ethos, pathos and logos
The name of the old Greek/Aristotelean model of argumenation
What is a syllogism
exaggeration
what is hyperbole
Simplistic design of opponent's views which is easy to argue against
What is straw man
Five basic aspects to keep in mind when performing a speech
What are speaker, situation, audience, topic and language
The name of the aspect in the Toulmin model in which you argue against yourself
What is rebuttal
A question that the speaker intends to answer him-/herself
What is rhetorical question
Creating a distracting, new argument
what is a red herring
Three basic types of speeches
What are political, informative and epideictic speeches
The name of the transaction in which the two speakers disagree on their rhetorical roles
What is crossed transaction
Reference to external event, person or item
what is allusion
Referring to some external person or institution that might substantiate a claim
what is appeal to authority
What are the house of representatives and the senate
The name of a chain of discourse in which is an established convention
what is hegemony/hegemonistic discourse
reference to something which the speaker claims not to refer to
what is apophasis
Presenting only two options with nothing in between
What is false dilemma
The name applied to the states in America in which republicans and democrates face a close race in the election.
what are swing states
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