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soft-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
(Argument from) Testimony
Charisma
Analogy
Example
2. Opposite of Epistrophe
Parallelism
Anaphora
Conceding Arguments
Mercenary Scientists
3. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Informal Debate
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Formal Logic
Corax
4. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Intelligence
Attitudinal (inherency)
Decorum
5. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Burden of Rejoinder
Special Topoi
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
6. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
False Dichotomy
Accident
Protagoras
7. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Enthymeme
Narrative
Epistrophe
8. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Appeal to Authority
Tisias
Tools of Refutation
Unrepresentative Sample
9. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo
Checking for Narrative argument
Decision Rules
Sign
Questionable Analogy
10. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates
Toulmin Model
(Argument by) Example
Simile
Formal Debate
11. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Erotema
Modus Tollens
Epistrophe
Attitudinal (inherency)
12. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Conjectural (Stasis)
Narrative
Intelligence
Term I/Term II
13. 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?
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Checking for Testimony argument
Correctio
(Special Topoi for) Science
14. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Antithesis
Cliche
Division
Refutation Strategies
15. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Protagoras
First
Anaphora
16. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Rhetoric
Sound
Unequivocal
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
17. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Correctio
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Non Sequitur
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
18. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Burden of proof
Tisias
Common Practice (Fallacy)
19. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Incrementum
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Cliche
20. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Appeal to Ignorance
Plato
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Tisias
21. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Mixed Metaphor
Unequivocal
Cost
Tisias
22. The list that builds
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Incrementum
23. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Epanalepsis
Ethos
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Checking for Analogy argument
24. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Debate Resolutions
Analogy
25. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Value-Oriented Arguments
Conceding Arguments
Cure
(Argument by) Analogy
26. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Checking for Testimony argument
Plato
Categorical (Syllogism)
Locus of Quantity
27. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Example
Warrant
Accident
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
28. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Parallelism
Tokenism
Ethos
Procedural (Stasis)
29. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Metaphor
Appeal to Authority
30. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Mercenary Scientists
Composition
Hyperbole
31. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Anaphora
Division
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Special Topoi
32. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Burden of Rejoinder
Epistrophe
Blame
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
33. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Anaphora
Epanalepsis
Tu Quoque
34. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Mixed Metaphor
Straw Person
Hyperbole
Anadiplosis
35. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Epanalepsis
Ambiguity
Second (or) Third
Attitudinal (inherency)
36. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Metaphor
Questionable Analogy
Analogy
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
37. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Popular Democracy
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Ad Populum
Tools of Refutation
38. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Hyperbole
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Antithesis
Sign
39. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Good Will (Ethos)
Modus Ponens
Claim
40. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Correctio
Division
Testimony
41. Term with higher (positive) value
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Correctio
Red Herring
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
42. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Modus Tollens
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Appeal to Authority
Decorum
43. An argument that follows proper logical form
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
Grounds (or data)
Valid
44. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Exergasia
Syllogism
Tu Quoque
Testimony
45. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Tools of Refutation
Quantitative (significance)
Equivocation
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
46. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Anaphora
Begging the Question
(Special Topoi for) Science
Hasty Generalization
47. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Ad Hominem
Correctio
Appeal to Ignorance
Metaphor
48. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Equivocation
Rhetoric
Argument
Exergasia
49. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Analogy
Good Will (Ethos)
Debate Resolutions
Composition
50. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Ill
Conceding Arguments
Decision Rules
Term I/Term II