Aristotle defined this as the "faculty of discovering in the particular case all the possible means of persuasion
What is Rhetoric
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"All men are mortal.
Socrates is a man.
Therefore, Socrates is mortal"
This is an example of what kind of reasoning.
What is deductive (or syllogistic) reasoning.
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Repetition of the initial sounds of words.
What is Alliteration
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The difference between denotative and connotative meaning.
What is dictionary vs. meanings based on personal experiences and associations
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The two functions of persuasive speeches
What are convince and actuate.
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The ability to speak with rhetorical skill and eloquence.
What is oratory
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A flaw or error in reasoning
What is a fallacy
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Contrasting statements to make a rhetorical point
What is Antithesis
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The four reasons to adopt a global perspective (Imperatives). Name three of the four.
What are economic, technological, demographic, and peace imperatives.
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Name and explain the three persuasive appeals
What are ethos (credibility), pathos (emotion), logos (reason).
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Any sentence or sting of sentences that conveys an author's idea word-for-word
What is direct quote
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People have been seeing the Loch Ness Monster for hundreds of years. No one has been able to prove it doesn't exist. Therefore, Nessy is real.
This is what fallacy?
What is Appeal to ignorance
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"Finals week is like running from a million rabid badgers and an exploding sun" is an example of...
Hyperbole AND Simile
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The notion that one's own culture is superior to any other.
What is Ethnocentrism
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Type of reasoning using specific examples to a more general claim.
What is inductive reasoning
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When most of the speech is the speaker's original work, but quotes or other information have been used without being cited.
What is Incremental Plagiarism
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The two criteria for evaluating sources.
What is quality and credibility.
400
He's a male nurse is an example of...
What is spotlighting
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The difference between high context and low context cultures.
What is the amount of information inferred by the setting (ceremonial), and privileging of verbal explanation (how much background information is acceptable to provide in a situation).
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In the Toulmin Model, the four things do you need to have an argument with backing.
What are claim, data, warrant, backing.
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According to the text, who was the only major rhetorical thinker in the Middle Ages?
Who was St. Augustine?
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The three formal fallacies. Name and explain each.
What is bad reasons fallacy, masked man fallacy, fallacy of quantitative logic.
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Three kinds of powerless language
What is hedges, qualifiers, tag questions.
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The four cultural value dimensions
what are power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism-collectivism, masculinity-femininity.
500
Name and define the three types of persuasive speeches.
What are propositions of fact (true or false), propositions of value (good or bad), proposition of policy (appropriate course of action).