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Oh, those Greeks
Don't You Argue with Me!
It Means WHAT?
I Meant to Say That
Pete and Repeat
100
This is what the Greek work Logos means.
What is the word in Greek for logic?
100
A way of simplifying an argument into two choices: one mild and the other extreme.
What is Either/Or?
100
The emotional meaning of a word.
What is Connotation
100
This term means saying something in a more politically correct way.
What is Euphemism
100
Words and phrases that are restated [another form of the word "repeat.]
What is Repetition
200
This is what the Greek word Ethos means (begins with a "c").
What is the word in Greek for credibility.
200
When a simple problem becomes increasingly detrimental.
What is Slippery Slope
200
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is Denotation
200
Extreme Exaggeration
What is Hyperbole
200
"I am Sam. Sam I am" (Dr. Seuss)
What is Anadiplosis
300
If you are Pathological, this is what the Greeks thought you were.
What is emotional?
300
You are in math class and you are texting Mom (she, of course, texted you *first*), and your teacher catches you. You reply, "But Mrs. Cookson lets me text!" You are guilty of this fallacy in argument.
What is False Authority
300
When a rhetor purposefully uses strong connotative language to create a reaction.
What is Loaded Language
300
The opposite of hyperbole
What is Understatement
300
"Be one of the proud, the few, the Marines" (Marines recruiting ad).
What is Asyndeton
400
The art of speaking well.
What is Rhetoric?
400
Non-harmful activities are equated to horrific crimes; such as, not coming home on time for curfew is the same as committing a hate crime that should be punishable with death.
What is Moral Equivalence.
400
"Hollywood needs to answer for choices that have been made" is an example.
What is Metonymy
400
A type of understatement but said in a negative: "He's not such a bad teacher."
What is Litote
400
"He pulled the blue plastic tarp off of him and folded it and carried it out to the grocery cart and packed it and came back with their plates and some cornmeal cakes in a plastic bag and a plastic bottle of syrup" (McCarthy, The Road).
What is Polysyndeton
500
Those who use rhetoric.
What is a rhetor. (And EVERYONE is a rhetor!)
500
This is a fallacy that only shows one side of an issue to distort the facts.
What is Stacked Evidence
500
This is how we speak in every day speech.
What is Colloquialism
500
This excerpt is an example of a type of diction: In looking at many small points of difference between species, which, as far as our ignorance permits us to judge, seem quite unimportant, we must not forget that climate, food, etc., have no doubt produced some direct effect. It is also necessary to bear in mind that owing to the law of correlation, when one part varies and the variations are accumulated through natural selection, other modifications, often of the most unexpected nature, will ensue.
What is Formal Diction (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species)
500
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" (Casablanca).
What is Anaphora