Challenge A Week 9 Review

Fallacy Detective

100

Attacks an opponent's character or his motives for believing something instead of disproving his argument.

Ad Hominem

200

Introduces an irrelevant point into an argument.

Red Herring

300

Condemning an arguement because of where it began, how it began, or who began it.

Genetic Fallacy

400

Changes the meaning of a word in the middle of an argument

Equivocation

500

Changing or exaggerating an opponent's position to make it easier to refute.

Straw Man

LTW

100

Definition

Comparison

Circumstance

Relationship

Authority/Testimony

5 Common Topics of Invention

200

A similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses.

Parallelism 1

300

Part of the conclusion in which the writer states to whom his issue matters and why it matters to that person or group

Amplification

400

The response to an opposing argument.

Refutation

500

Invention

Arrangement

Elocution

Memoria

Delivery

5 Cannons of Rhetoric

Latin

100

Bad

malus, a, um

200

Safe

tutus, a, um

300

Hostes bellum parant, sed impetum eorum sustinebimus.

The enemy is preparing for war, but we shall withstand their attacks.

400

Omnes Galli in armis sunt. Spem victoriae in virtute posuernt.

All the Gauls are in arms. They have placed hope of victory in courage.

500

Legiones Romanae hostes semper vincunt.

The Roman legions always conquer the enemy.

Geography

100

Tunis

Tunisia

200

Dakar

Senegal

300

Diameter of the Earth

8,000 miles

400

Abuja

Nigeria

500

N'Djamena

Chad

Science

100

Number of bones in the human adult body

206

200

Largest Organ in the body

Skin

300

This organ has regenerative properties

Liver

400

Longest Record of Hiccups

68 years

500

Absorbs water, sodium and other minerals

Large Intestine