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Rhetorical Devices
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an irrelevant topic or piece of information used to divert attention from the original topic
What is a red herring or smokescreen?
100
a belief or opinion stated as a declarative sentence
What is a claim?
100
thinking about thinking
What is critical thinking?
100
reasons given to support or demonstrate a conclusion
What is the premise?
100
He is the best professor ever!
What is a hyperbole?
200
when flattery is used to sway an opinion or disguised as a reason for accepting a claim
What is apple polishing?
200
objective claim
What is a claim whose truth is not dependent on whether or not people think it is true?
200
Premise and conclusion
What are two parts of an argument?
200
A word or phrase that has more than one meaning and the meaning is unclear in the statement.
What is ambiguity ?
200
suggesting that there is evidence to support a claim but never actually providing the evicence
What is a truth surrogate?
300
using scare tactics or threatening a person to obtain agreement
What is argument by force?
300
a question
What is an issue?
300
An argument in which it is impossible for the premise(s) to be true and the conclusion false.
What is a valid argument?
300
a claim may have more than one meaning because of the way it was written
What is syntactic ambiguity?
300
challenging or attacking an argument because of characteristics of the person making the argument rather than on the content of the argument
What is an ad hominem fallacy
400
the practice of urging someone to accept a claim by making him feel guilty for not accepting it
What is a guilt trip?
400
the tendency to alter your views so that they are consistent with those of other people
What is bandwagon effect?
400
According to Aristotle the speaker's personal attributes
What is ethos?
400
a person or persons who may gain from our acceptance of a claim
What is an interested party
400
switching the places subject and predicate of a claim and then replacing them with their complementary forms
What is contraposition?
500
a pattern of reasoning in which you feel threatened of rejection by friends, family, etc if you don't accept a certian claim
What is peer pressure ?
500
tendency to find something wrong or find fault with others who are not in the group
What is in group bias?
500
identify the thesis or conclusion
What is the first step in understanding arguments?
500
a neutral word or term used instead of a term with negative connotations
What is a euphemism?
500
every member of a given population has an equal chance of being included in a sample
What is random sampling?