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Persuasion

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A concept whose truth can be proved/ a statement that can proved true - E.g. See if You can Reduce Your Debt Payments up to 50% or more with a Free Financial Evaluation!- FREE SHIPPING & 3 FREE Gifts with your order of $55 or more!!!






2. The side that will oppose the proposition






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






4. 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






5. 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.






6. Claims attack the person and not the issue






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






8. 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-






9. Does not acknowledge the possibility of a neutral position






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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






16. Takes as evidence what it claims to prove






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






18. 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?






19. The side that will argue the proposition






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






21. Appeal to an unqualified expert






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






23. Persuading by making people feel as though they are one of the elite if they are using a particular product or thinking a certain way






24. Advertisers use celebrities and regular people to endorse products - If it's good enough for astronauts its good enough for you - The official candy bar of the Olympic Games






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. Tries to persuade the reader to do - think - or buy something because it is popular or everyone is doing it - The famous McDonald's billboards displaying how many hamburgers the restaurants have sold. Mocked by Jerry Seinfeld: 'How insecure is this c






32. Advertisers sometimes use words or phrases that seem significant - but on closer inspection they are actually meaningless - e.g. 'Leaves dishes virtually spotless.' We have seen so many ad claims that we have learned to tune out weasels. You are sup






33. The dictionary definition of a word






34. The study of persuasion and its ways and means - the science of discourse - well-crafted communication that helps your achieve your persona - social - and/or political goals






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






36. A logical appeal or an appeal to reason (facts - statistics - and expert testimony)






37. A suggestion that is offered for consideration or acceptance






38. 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?






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






40. A false argument; an argument that appears to be logical - but in fact is not logical






41. Sequential relationship is misinterpreted as causal (this caused that)






42. An argument based on two premises and a conclusion that is logically true - E.g. vegetarian do not eat meat - I am a vegetarian - Therefore - I do not eat meat






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






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






45. Inducement to act by argument or reasoning or entreaty






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






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






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






49. What is the best or most accurate interpretation?






50. 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.