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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience






2. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






3. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?






4. Opposite of Anaphora






5. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts






6. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.






7. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another






8. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)






9. After this - therefore on account of this






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






11. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






12. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






13. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.






14. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.






15. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






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






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






18. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')






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






20. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






21. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






22. Opposite of Epistrophe






23. If A then B A Therefore B






24. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.






25. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






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






27. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner






28. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed






29. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares






30. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue






31. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






32. 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






33. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place






34. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope






35. Who developed the argument from general probability?






36. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'






37. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






38. Good Moral Character






39. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






40. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate






41. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






42. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






43. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






44. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






45. Exaggeration






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






47. 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






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






49. Ask a rhetorical question






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