Logic or Rhetoric
What is "the art and science of reasoning?"
This is when a person uses words or phrases that are offensive or confusing to the audience in some way. It is derived from Latin for "bad taste."
What is "cacozelia?'
This is a specific name for the introduction of a speech or persuasive essay.
What is exordium?
This fallacy occurs when someone reasons that because everyone is doing something, it should be done or believed.
What is "bandwagon?"
All triangles have three sides.
What is a priori?
This is the book's definition of "Rhetoric."
What is "the art and science of public speaking?'
This figure of speech, often used to establish ethos, is a deliberate understatement.
What is "litotes?"
This is peroratio.
What is the end of an argument where important points are emphasized to leave the audience with a strong, concluding idea?
This fallacy occurs when someone argues that because something has always been done or believed, it is correct to do it or believe it.
What is "appeal to tradition?"
An example is a eulogy.
What is Ceremonial discourse (also known as epideictic rhetoric or ceremonial oratory, from Aristotle's classification of rhetoric)?
He was the Roman god of doors and gates.
Who was Janus?
This rhetorical device involves recalling past events or even words of an authority from memory.
What is "anamnesis?"
Aristotle recommended that one begin an arguement with this best ordered of one's arguments.
What is begin with second best argument?
This fallacy is when someone uses the authority of an expert in one field to prove a point in another field.
What is "appeal to illigitimate authority?"
"God exists because nobody has proven He doesn't exist."
What is "argumentum ad ignorantiam?"
This is why Debate is often referred to as "The Janus-faced discipline."
What is debate requires one to look both inward and outward simulataneously?
This is a vivid description or retelling of an event, often used to evoke pathos.
What is "enargia?"
This is confirmatio.
What is the part of a speech or persuasive essay when a speaker offers proof for the case?
A fallacy in which someone makeas a generalization based on a comparison of two things that are so dissimilar that no true comparison can be made.
What is "false analogy?"
Parent to child: "You can't stay out past 10 PM." Child: "Why not?" Parent: "Because I said so."
What is "ipse dixit" fallacy?
The quote, "Love is free; it is not practiced as a way of achieving other ends."
Who is, Pope Benedict XVI?
This occurs when someone addresses an inanimate object as though it has thoughts or emotions.
This is the part of a speech or debate where definitions, key terms, pertentent topics, and history are established.
What is narratio?
This fallacy is based on drawing a conclusion from a distorted or exaggerated version of an opponent's arguement.
What is "straw man fallacy?"
Job 10:2-3 "Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Doth it seem good unto thee to oppress, to despise the work of thine hands...?"
What is "epiplexis?"
(Job's questions here chide God for what seems like unjust oppression, expressing bewildered grief and reproach at divine actions toward a created being.)