Speaker Beware
Name any one of the three viable options to attack a syllogism's logical flow.
What are:
1. Three and only three terms.
2. Distribution of the middle term.
3. A distributed conclusion should be distributed above.
This founding father wrote the majority of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the type of introduction which places the audience in the middle of a story.
What is a narrative introduction?
Pointing out a contradiction between two ideas falls under this common topic.
What is Relationship?
This is the event that occurs when a case is reconsidered after an initial verdict.
What is an appeal?
A successful essential definition will not fail this important test of validity.
What is switching the subject and predicate?
This important subject was included in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, but was noticeably absent from the final draft.
What is slavery?
This is the type of introduction which prepares the audience for an oddity about the argument or the circumstance.
What is a preparatory introduction?
This Common Topic encourages an audience to draw conclusions about future facts from past facts.
What is Circumstance?
This federal body of nine Justices makes rulings concerning the constitutionality of legislation affecting the entire nation.
What is the United States Supreme Court?
An appeal to this form of refutation is considered the riskiest and is often used inappropriately to deflect from the argument at hand.
What is refutation by wit?
Abigail Adams said that the country had been duped by this person in her letter to John Adams.
Who is the Earl of Dunmore?
This is the type of introduction employed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail."
What is a corrective introduction?
This is the special topic which deals with praise or censure.
What is Ceremonial?
This is the amendment in the Bill of Rights detailing when searches and seizures can occur.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This common rhetorical mistake attacks the character of the person making an argument rather than the argument. (In Latin!)
What is ad hominem?
Abigail Adams encouraged John Adams to do this while founding the United States. (Exact quote necessary).
What is "remember the ladies"?
A successful introduction will have rendered an audience these three things.
What is attentive, benevolent, and docile?
"The bigger the better" is an example of the use of this sub-topic.
What is a maxim?
This is the amendment in the Bill of Rights dealing with the right to the assistance of counsel.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This common rhetorical error conflates an order of events with cause and effect, causing the arguer to draw a fallacious conclusion about an event's cause. (In Latin!)
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated that he was the leader of this group in his Letter from Birmingham City Jail.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
These are the five types of introduction discussed in class.
What are Preparatory, Paradoxical, Narrative, Inquisitive, and Corrective?
These are the three elements of the judicial special topic.
What are evidence, opportunity, and motive?
Under the First Amendment, all Americans have the right to these four things. (Name any three.)
What are the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of petition?