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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






2. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument






3. Reasoning from case to case






4. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others






5. Oppostite of Litotes






6. Opposite of Anaphora






7. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






8. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)






9. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change






10. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






11. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.






12. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






13. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue






14. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal






15. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:






16. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






17. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






18. Term with lower (negative) value






19. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






20. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






21. Understatement






22. Ideas repeated






23. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides






24. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?






25. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original






26. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






27. Term with higher (positive) value






28. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






29. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument






30. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C






31. Who developed the argument from general probability?






32. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?






33. Set two things in opposition






34. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






35. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.






36. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B






37. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?






38. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'






39. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members






40. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






41. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






42. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






43. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






44. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec






45. Opposite of Epistrophe






46. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible






47. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






48. beginning repeated at ending






49. Appeals from the character of the speaker






50. Good Moral Character