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Persuasion

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When you read a nonfiction passage - you must decide what information is important and what is not. What you must remember is the essential information. Essential information is necessary to understand a passage. This includes the main idea and the s






2. What's my message? - Who's my audience? - How should I adapt my message to my specific audience? - What's my rhetorical strategy? - What's my goal?






3. The ability to make a 'rational' link between your claim and evidence - which helps the audience consent to your argument






4. What is the best or most accurate definition?






5. What course of action should we take as a government - nation - country - or culture?






6. The feelings or emotions that are evoked from a word






7. An argument whose conclusion does not follow from its premise






8. The affirmative or positive side is proposing a (new) position or resolution. Therefore it falls to this side to show evidence for that position






9. An ethical appeal that establishes the speaker's or writer's credibility and trustworthiness






10. We call agree on the proper definitions of freedom and democracy - we can all agree that freedom and democracy are inherently good and are worth fighting a war - we agree that American freedom and American democracy are applicable to a non-American c






11. The process of selecting - organizing - and interpreting our experiences






12. An expressed opinion - statement - or point of view






13. Does not acknowledge the possibility of a neutral position






14. The dictionary definition of a word






15. Facts - figures - numbers - graphs - charts - polls - surveys






16. The side that will oppose the proposition






17. Takes as evidence what it claims to prove






18. Dissimilarities between two things are so much greater than their similarities - that their connection is unjustified






19. Advertisers try to make their products stand out by focusing on a single element that is found only in their product - hoping that consumers will think this means their product is better - he only breathmint that has retsyn - There's nothing else lik






20. To reduce complex matters to an either/or logic






21. The business technique that uses narration and storytelling to evoke a particular experience of a product - person - company. Also used to promote particular lifestyles. By consuming this bran - you participate within this lifestyle - e.g. Starbucks-






22. Ordinary people sell a message. You are to believe that because these people are like you - they can be trusted.






23. Deliberate spreading information - ideas - or rumors to help or harm a person - group - movement - institution or nation






24. Propaganda is a systematic way of spreading beliefs through a combination of facts - opinions disguised as facts - and repetition. Sometimes there is also some stretching of the truth. When you read - decide whether the author is trying to persuade y






25. To treat one cause among many as if it is the single cause






26. Words or images that appeal to the audience's emotions are used. The appeal may be to positive emotions - such as desire for success - or to negative ones - such as fear.






27. Claims attack the person and not the issue






28. What is the best or most accurate interpretation?






29. The information that is not necessary to understand the passage is called nonessential information. This may include opinions or details that do not add to the main idea of the passage.






30. To misrepresent your opponents argument; to seemingly refute your opponent's argument when in fact you have not accurately described his/her position






31. An emotional appeal that stirs the feelings of the audience/reader/listener






32. Narrative (story) - anecdotal (brieft tale or story that lends itself to but does not prove a conclusion) - participation - demonstation - performance - testimonial (eyewitness - expert - authority - celebrity)






33. Assumes because one thing is allowed - worse things will occur after






34. Telling only positive things about something or someone - without giving evidence or facts






35. A suggestion that is offered for consideration or acceptance






36. This technique wants you to associate the good feelings created in the ad with the product - Because you deserve it - We want you to have the best.






37. Assumes that the premise is not ideal - but a wiser choice than the opponent's






38. The side that will argue the proposition






39. Evidence supporting the team's position or used to denigrate or defeat the opposing view






40. A statement that cannot be proved true. It is something that someone/author thinks - believes - feels. Some clue words associated with opinions are; think. appears - feel - believes. seems.






41. Is it moral - right - wrong - ethical - pretty - ugly?






42. When you assume that the audience will automatically supply and accept an unspoken premise; construct an argument that does not explicitly state all the premises because you know the audience members will fill in those premises on their own.






43. Advertisers ask rhetorical questions or make statments so that consumers associate certain ideas and emotions with their products - on't you want the best protection you can get with your deoderant? - Wouldn't you love a Sunway Airlines Vacation?






44. Inducement to act by argument or reasoning or entreaty






45. Appeal to an unqualified expert






46. A fact that may be used to infer another fact






47. Improve our ability to argue for our views and perspectives - Improve our ability to provide counter-arguments to other people's arguments - Improve our ability to assess the legitimacy of arguments in general.






48. A discussion adhering to parliamentary rules of proposition between two opposing sides






49. Advertisers make it seem that the product is so new that you will be the first on the block to have it - The motor car is the magic carpet of modern times - Something new for the boys






50. Advertisers intentionally do not finish a comparison - Our Candy is Sweetest - The safer car for your family