These the three pillars of rhetoric concern shared cultural values, emotional response, and reason.
What are ethos, pathos, logos?
100
An organized list of scenarios, people, or ideas that emphasizes the author's point
What is "catalogue"?
100
A confident and forceful statement of one's belief
What is an assertion?
100
The move by which a rhetor explains what he or she will not address before committing to a thesis.
What is partition?
100
A claim based on false reasoning.
What is a fallacy?
200
This geometrically-shaped graph separates the components of rhetoric into: the audience, the communicator, and the message.
What is the rhetorical triangle?
200
This is the name of an extended metaphor.
What is an analogy?
200
A change in the text that depicts a change in the rhetor's attitude or opinion of a subject.
What is shift if tone?
200
The move in which a rhetor debunks a counterargument.
What is "refutation"?
200
The act of using one example to make a false claim regarding a large set of data.
What is "hasty generalization"?
300
On the exam, these are the two questions that need to be answered when using the arch method.
What are "what" and "how"?
300
The device that refers to someone/something by an object with which it's closely associated.
What is metonymy?
300
The use of mockery, irony, humor, and/or wit to attack or ridicule something, such as a person, habit, idea, institution, society, or custom that is, or is considered to be, foolish, flawed, or wrong.
What is "satire"?
300
Fill in the blank: the best arguments fluctuate between ________ images and __________ ideas.
What are "concrete" and "abstract"?
300
An instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ).
What is a syllogism?
400
The event that acts as the catalyst or provokes an argument
What is exigence?
400
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
What is synechdoche?
400
This rhetorical strategy consists of pairing two (normally opposite) things together in order to highlight their differences and to offer a new perspective.
What is "juxtaposition"?
400
The act of defining two ideas as contradictory binaries (opposites).
What is "antithesis"
400
Attacking another person in the argument rather than addressing the topic.
What is "ad hominem"?
500
The term given to an over-archieving conversation or exchange of ideas that spans across time and involves many view points
What is "discourse"?
500
The term used to describe substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant
What is "euphemism"?
500
This organization requires alternate understanding of opinions in order to highlight a common ground.
What is the "Rogerian" organization?
500
This is a component of an argument or synthesis essay that acknowledges the validity of opposing or conflicting views
What is a "concession"?
500
This type of reasoning relies upon syllogism or the enthymeme (a syllogism in which one premise is unstated).