"To persuade my audience that eating yogurt prolongs human life" is a specific purpose statement for a persuasive speech on a question of ____________.
What is fact?
100
The three types of persuasive speeches
What is Speeches on Questions of Fact, Speeches on Questions of Value, and Speeches on Questions of Policy
100
A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
What is Red Herring?
100
Reasoning that moves from particular facts to general conclusion
What is Reasoning from Specific Instances
100
Because persuasion aims to change the beliefs and/or actions of listeners, speaking to persuade is one of the few cases
in which a speaker does not need to consider her or his ethical obligations.
What is false?
200
According to your textbook, this important aspect of America was affected by persuasion.
What is our GDP?
200
The speaker's goal is to convince the audience to take action in support of a given policy
What is Speeches to Gain Immediate Action
200
A fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute?
What is Ad Hominem?
200
The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of _____ are evidence and reasoning.
What is logos?
200
"To persuade my audience that discrimination on the basis of marital status is unfair" is a specific purpose statement for a
persuasive speech on a question of ___________.
What is value?
300
The mental give and take between speaker and listener during a persuasive speech
What is Mental Dialogue with the Audience
300
The three Types of Credibility
What is/are: Initial, Derived, and Terminal?
300
A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
What is Either-Or?
300
Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
What is causal reasoning?
300
Three types of evidence.
What are: novel, specific, and (from) credible sources?
400
The portion of the whole audience that the speaker most wants to persuade.
What is target audience?
400
The two factors of Credibility...
What are Competence and Character?
400
Bandwagon
What is a fallacy that assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable?
400
Reasoning in which a speaker compares two similar cases and infers that what is true for the first case is also true for the second.
What is analogical reasoning?
400
A fallacy in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
What is hasty generalization?
500
A question of ____________ deals with whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
What is policy?
500
List and define Aristotle's Persuasive Proofs: (The three main topics we talked about in your outline).
What are Ethos: credibility, Pathos: emotional appeal, Logos: logical appeal of a speaker; (evidence and reasoning)?
500
A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented.
What is Slippery Slope?
500
List the 4 types of Reasoning
What is Reasoning from specific instances, Reasoning from principle, Causal reasoning, Analogical Reasoning
500
When speaking to persuade, you use evidence to prove a point. Be sure to do this, when using evidence.