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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






2. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.






3. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






4. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?






5. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'






6. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____






7. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






8. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____

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9. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






10. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience






11. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.






12. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?






13. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






14. Opposite of anadiplosis






15. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






16. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






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






18. Exaggeration






19. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike






20. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective






21. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.






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






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






24. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






25. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.






26. beginning repeated at ending






27. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)






28. Ask a rhetorical question






29. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






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






31. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)






32. 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






33. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity






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






35. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






36. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






37. What vehicles and tenors share






38. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.






39. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.






40. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






41. Understatement






42. Set two things in opposition






43. A or B Not A Therefore - B






44. If A then B A Therefore B






45. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals






46. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings






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






48. An argument that follows proper logical form






49. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'






50. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.