Aristotle
Rhetoric is useful because it can help us arrive at what? It's not always achieved with facts alone.
What is truth?
To make a claim that X is a problem, a speaker provides multiple examples. They are using this kind of reasoning.
What is inductive reasoning?
If asked why we should legalize cannabis for recreational use and you reply "70% of other Americans believe we should!," that's an example of this kind of fallacy
What is bandwagon?
If you're thinking about how to put the audience into a certain frame of mind, you're thinking about this mode of persuasion.
What is pathos?
A State of the Union address delivered by a president through the use of a teleprompter is an example of this kind of delivery style.
Manuscript
According to Aristotle, this is one of the distinguishing features between humans and other animals
What is rational speech?
This form of reasoning may look like this in practice: "If this worked at this public university of 30,000 students, it should work for this other one with 31,000 students."
What is analogical reasoning?
"If we legalize cannabis, what's next? Methamphetamine? When will it stop?" Questions like these would be categorized as this kind of fallacy.
What is slippery slope?
This mode of persuasion, according to Aristotle, may be the most effective.
What is ethos?
This is a common thread in most ceremonial speeches.
What are life transitions?
There are lots of ways to appeal to an audience. If you were to say "If we value higher education so much, we should provide more funding for it for the betterment of society," you're probably using this appeal.
What is nobility?
To make a specific claim about our university, based on generally held 'truths' about most universities, we'd be using this kind of reasoning.
What is deductive reasoning?
If I argued that removing single use plastics would solve ocean pollution because that's where it comes from, I'd be using this fallacy.
What is false cause?
To argue through the proofs in a speech itself is to use this mode of persuasion.
Logos
Ceremonial speeches have similarities with these other two types of speeches.
What are informative and persuasive speeches?
Dialectic and rhetoric aren't the same, but Aristotle does give us this phrase to demonstrate a commonality between the two.
What is ‘not concerned with any specific discipline’? Or What is ‘universal’?
If a speaker encouraged the audience to buy stock, reasoning that in similar market circumstances, buying was beneficial, they'd be using this form of reasoning.
What is reasoning by sign?
This fallacy is designed to misdirect someone, getting them 'off topic,' in effect.
What is a red herring?
You should use this mode of persuasion in all of your speeches.
What are ALL the modes of persuasion? (What are ethos, pathos, and logos?)
Ceremonial speeches are characterized by these two things a rhetor does - implicitly or explicitly - in any ceremonial speech.
What are praising and blaming?
Aristotle says that we should be able to argue on both sides of an issue (or understand both sides) for this reason.
What is causal reasoning?
This logical fallacy is common during political debates when a candidate may choose to critique their opponent's credibility or ethos, rather than debating a particular policy.
What is ad hominem?
When an audience considers whether you have their best interest in mind, this is what they're questioning.
What is your goodwill?
These three components are part of a "formula" for ceremonial speeches.
What are subject, value, and occasion?